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Amelia

Defying The Impossible. Living The Dream.

This better get me a toothpaste sponsorship

This biopic featuring two-times Oscar winner Hilary Swank takes at look at the latter stages of airflight pioneer Amelia Earhart. Following her initially business relationship with a promoter, they marry but agree to have an open marriage. This allows her to have an affair without feeling guilty. A trendsetter, she decides to get into the record books by flying around around the world... a plan which ended in tragedy.

109 minutes, Parental Guidance
Biographical, Drama, Female interest, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson, Cherry Jones
Director	Mira Nair
Screenplay	Ronald Bass, Anna Hamilton Phelan, from the book by Susan Butler, Mary S. Lovell
Music	Gabriel Yared
Cinematography	Stuart Dryburgh
Editing	Alison C. Johnson, Lee Percy
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2009
Produced by	AE Electra Productions, Avalon Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures
SA Distributor	Nu Metro

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama
Language	Low impact
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	None
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Low impact
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)
Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore	Guns / Weapons	Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs	Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour	Frightening / Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes	Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
International Media
Box Office (USA)Amy Nicholson	10
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert	15
eye Weekly (Canada)Eleni Deacon	5
Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers	5
ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs	8
Metacritic.com34 critics	7
RottenTomatoes.com140 critics	9
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	4
Internet (IMDB)1027 Netizens	11

Average .. 41%	8

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