AMELIA

Year: 2009
USA: Fox Searchlight
UK: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Cherry Jones, Joe Anderson, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Abrams, Dylan Roberts, Scott Yaphe, Tom Fairfoot, Ryann Shane, William Cuddy, Elizabeth Shepherd
Director: Mira Nair
Country: USA
USA & UK: 111 mins
USA Rated: PG for some sensuality, language, thematic elements and smoking
UK Certificate: PG contains mild language and sex references
USA Release Date: 23 October 2009
UK Release Date: 13 November 2009

Synopsis

AMELIA stars two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, the legendary aviatrix and enigmatic symbol of the American free spirit, who was guided by a profound curiosity for everything life had to offer.

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).

Also starring Christopher Eccleston and Cherry Jones (24 TV series) and directed by Mira Nair.

Ms Earhart was the first woman to solo the Atlantic and was the first pilot, man or woman, to fly unaccompanied across the Pacific. In Amelia's attempt 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.