Amelia
Release Date: 2009 - Wide Release
Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Film Genre: Biopic (Biography)
Country: United States
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Written by Ron Bass, Swank will play Earhart in the formative stages of her career. George Putnam (Gere), a publisher and publicist, was engaged by society denizen Amy Guest to set up a daring nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. When Guest was talked out of trying to become the first woman to make the trip, she dispatched Putnam to find a female pilot, and to turn the flight into a media event. McGregor plays Gene Vidal, who has a passionate affair with Earhart.
TRIVIA
Bass used 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" as primary resources for his research.