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  • 2009
  • PG
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2009
  • PG
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 51 m

Summary After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into a new role as America's sweetheart - the legendary "goddess of light," known for her bold, larger-than-life charisma. Yet, even with her global fame solidified, her belief in flirting with danger and standing up as her own, outspoken woman never changed. Sh...

Directed By: Mira Nair

Written By: Ron Bass, Anna Hamilton Phelan, Susan Butler, Mary S. Lovell

  • 2009
  • PG
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2009
  • PG
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 51 m

Amelia

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 34 Critic Reviews
37
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 17 User Ratings
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Summary After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into a new role as America's sweetheart - the legendary "goddess of light," known for her bold, larger-than-life charisma. Yet, even with her global fame solidified, her belief in flirting with danger and standing up as her own, outspoken woman never changed. Sh...

Directed By: Mira Nair

Written By: Ron Bass, Anna Hamilton Phelan, Susan Butler, Mary S. Lovell

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 34 Critic Reviews
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26% Positive
9 Reviews
41% Mixed
14 Reviews
32% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 34 Critic Reviews
37
26% Positive
9 Reviews
41% Mixed
14 Reviews
32% Negative
11 Reviews

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90
Most of all, Earhart wanted to be able to fly free as a bird above the clouds, and director Nair and star Swank make her quest not only understandable but truly impressive.
By Ray Bennett FULL REVIEW
63
Inside Amelia is a sharp idea struggling to get out: How does a woman marketed to the public as a star turn herself back into a human being? And at what cost?
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
50
A lazy coffee-table book of a movie,
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
40
Amelia is handsome yet predictable and high-minded--not a dud, exactly, but too proper, too reserved for its swaggering subject.
By David Denby FULL REVIEW
40
There’s nothing more boring than a life embalmed with halfhearted Hollywood bombast, which only makes the film’s fleeting pleasures stand out all the more.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
25
Better luck trying to find out what truly happened to the real Earhart than trying to diagnose all that's wrong with this hapless film.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
20
Amelia Earhart is still missing.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW

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Mixed or Average Based on 17 User Ratings
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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 17 User Ratings
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47% Positive
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24% Mixed
4 Ratings
29% Negative
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Production Company Fox Searchlight Pictures, Avalon Pictures, AE Electra Productions
Release Date Oct 23, 2009
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline Defying The Impossible. Living The Dream.
Website http://www.foxsearchlight.com/amelia/
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Awards

Hollywood Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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