If not exactly an epic of adventure and romance, the Hilary Swank vehicle “Amelia” - or “Boys Don’t Fly,” as no doubt many will call it - is nonetheless a sweet film about adventure and romance. Based on two biographies, it tells the story of the life of Amelia Earhart (Swank, “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Million Dollar Baby”) starting in 1928, when she was a reluctant passenger aboard a plane crossing the Atlantic. It ends in 1937, when her twin-engined Lockheed Electra was lost in the South Pacific with her and celestial navigator Fred Noonan (Christopher Eccleston) aboard on the final leg of an unprecedented voyage to circumnavigate the globe by airplane.

In between, Amelia, eerily evoked by two-time Academy Award winner Swank, falls in love with

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Earhart's last flight was as close as you can get to a suicide attempt, without calling it such. Extremely reckless due to their lack of preparation to overcome their almost impossible navigation problem(s).

 

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