Amelia

20092009
PGPG
1h 51m

Hilary Swank in Amelia (2009)

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

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A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

Director
- Mira Nair
Writers
- Ronald Bass
- Anna Hamilton Phelan
- Susan Butler(book "East To The Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart")
Stars

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Awards
- 3 wins & 4 nominations

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Director
- Mira Nair
Writers
- Ronald Bass
- Anna Hamilton Phelan
- Susan Butler(book "East To The Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart")
All cast & crew
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Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, an adventure that catapults her into aviation myth. —Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

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Taglines
- Defying The Impossible. Living The Dream.
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG for some sensuality, language, thematic elements and smoking
Parents guide

Trivia
The movie shows Amelia Earhart finishing third in the first Santa Monica-to-Cleveland Women's Air Derby in 1929, but doesn't explain why. Earhart and her friend Ruth Nichols were tied for first at the last stop before the final leg. Nichols took off right before Earhart, but her plane clipped a tractor on the runway and flipped over. Instead of taking off, Earhart ran to Nichols's plane to drag her to safety. After Earhart was sure that Nichols was not seriously hurt, she took off for Cleveland and finished third. Women in the Wind (1939) is based on the same air race and features a plot loosely inspired by the incident.

Goofs
I provided the uniform information to the wardrobe department for this movie. Prior to WW II the "dungaree" uniform of light blue chambray shirt and denim pants was only worn in engine rooms and gun turrets. All other crewmen would be in the proper seasonal white or blue uniforms. The officers khaki uniform for non-aviation officers was not authorized until 1941. So the Coast Guard uniforms in this movie are correct for 1937.

Quotes
George Putnam: Come back to me.
Amelia Earhart: Always.

Connections
Featured in The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009)

Soundtracks
Calon Lan
Written by John Hughes and Daniel James

Top review

Homage

A delicate strong story.But not a biography. Only homage for a belief, vision and adventure. So, it is difficult to define a film without great ambitions but with good taste.The bricks are not the truth or realistic portrait. Feelings, pieces from gestures and sage wise are gift for the public. And a sun - shine Hilary Swank. A Richard Gere , same lost hero of old years. The fever of fly, the small details and interior fight, the end as mist and flavor of a dream in the skin of reality. It is not a chronicle, testimony or documentary. It is not a masterpiece but may be a beautiful pendant.Must see! For a travel in the teenage corners.

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Release date
- October 23, 2009 (United States)
Countries of origin
- United States
- Canada
Official site
- Fox Searchlight (United States)
Language
- English
Also known as
- Chuyến Bay Cuối Cùng Của Amelia
Filming locations
- Dunnville Airport, Dunnville, Ontario, Canada
Production companies
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Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $14,246,488
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,904,047
- Oct 25, 2009
Gross worldwide
- $19,643,086

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Runtime
1 hour 51 minutes
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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