Amelia

Hilary Swank and Richard Gere star in director Mira Nair's biopic tracing the life of famed aviator Amelia Earhart. Earhart’s early aviation triumphs and meteoric rise to fame and fortune were propelled along by her tempestuous partnership and eventual marriage to publisher George Putnam (Richard Gere). Bound by mutual ambition, admiration and, ultimately a great love, their bond could not be broken even with her brief passionate affair with Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor).



Amelia Earhart who made history in 1932 by becoming the first woman ever to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and was the first pilot, man or woman, to fly unaccompanied across the Pacific.

In Amelia’s attempt five years later, to be the first to fly around the world in an equatorial flight her life was tragically cut short with her mysterious and untimely disappearance over the South Pacific in 1937.

Virginia Madsen and Ewan McGregor co-star in the Avalon Pictures production.

Cast:

Hilary Swank - Amelia Earhart
Richard Gere - George Putnam
Virginia Madsen - Dorothy Binney
Ewan McGregor - Gene Vidal
Mia Wasikowska - Elinor Smith

Crew:

Mira Nair - Director
Kevin Hyman - Producer
Lydia Dean Pilcher - Producer
Ted Waitt - Producer
Ronald Bass - Screenwriter / Executive Producer
Susan Butler - Book Author
Mary S. Lovell - Book Author
Anna Hamilton Phelan - Screenwriter

Release dates:
October 23, 2009 (US) 13 November 2009 (UK)

Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars