Amelia (film)

Infobox Film
name = Amelia


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director = Mira Nair
producer = Ronald Bass
Hilary Swank
Ted Waitt
Kevin Hyman
Lydia Dean Pilcher
writer = Ronald Bass
starring = Hilary Swank
Richard Gere
Ewan McGregor
Virginia Madsen
Christopher Eccleston
music = Linda Cohen
cinematography = Stuart Dryburgh
editing =
distributor =
released = October 23, 2009
runtime =
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language = English
budget =
gross =
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imdb_id = 1129445

"Amelia" is an upcoming 2009 biographical film based on the life of Amelia Earhart, starring Hilary Swank as Earhart along with a cast that includes Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, and Virginia Madsen. It is directed by Mira Nair based on a script written by Ronald Bass. Bass wrote the script using several books on Earhart as sources including Susan Butler's book "East to the Dawn," Mary Lovell's "The Sound of the Wings" and Elgin Long's "Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved".

Plot

The film chronicles Earhart's rise to fame and follows her rocky relationship with her husband George Putnam.

Cast

*Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhartcite news|url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980470.html?categoryid=13&cs=1|author=Michael Fleming|title=Hilary Swank to play Amelia Earhart|publisher=Variety Magazine|dare=2008-02-07|accessdate=2008-10-08]
*Richard Gere as George P. Putnam, Earhart's husbandcite news|url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984375.html?categoryid=13&cs=1|author=Tatiana Siegel|title=Virginia Madsen added to 'Amelia'|publisher=Variety Magazine|date=2008-04-21|accessdate=2008-10-08]
*Virginia Madsen as Dorothy Binney, Putnam's first wife
*Ewan McGregor as Gene Vidal (father of Gore Vidal), with whom Earhart had a passionate affaircite news|url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986462.html?categoryid=13&cs=1|author=Tatiana Siegel|title=Ewan McGregor flies with 'Amelia'|publisher=Variety Magazine|date=2008-05-26|accessdate=2008-10-08]
*Christopher Eccleston as Fred Noonan, Earhart's navigator [cite news|url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987374.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1|author=Michael Fleming|title=Christopher Eccleston joins 'Amelia'|publisher=Variety Magazine|sate=2008-06-12|accessdate=2008-10-08]
*Joe Anderson as Bill Stultz
*William Cuddy as a young Gore Vidal
*Mia Wasikowska as Elinor Smith

Production

Filming took place in New York, Toronto, Nova Scotia and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario [http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1058616&auth=JOHN+LAW] . As of the weekend of June 22, 2008, Swank was in the town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia for filming taking place at the town's well-known Acadia University.

References

External links

*imdb title|id=1129445|title=Amelia