Hilary Swank plays the pilot who didn’t see why her sex should limit her ambitions, with Richard Gere the older husband who steered her towards celebrity.
The Earhart story is one that should be impossible to make dull, but director Mira Nair (Vanity Fair, Salaam Bombay) has a go by crowbarring in lots of dreary love interest.
Swank turns in a decent enough performance but is hampered in her efforts to be convincing by wearing what looks like a dead guineapig on her head (Earhart’s hairdo was practical, not insane). Gere mopes around a lot, while Ewan McGregor has another stab at an American accent as he plays Gene Vidal, father to a certain Gore. As Vidal never said, aye right.
Amelia (PG)
***
Dir: Mira Nair
With: Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article