Amelia DVD
Get ready to set off on a romantic adventure this spring with Amelia, starring two-time Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, in a fascinating account of the legendary aviation pioneer and her extraordinary life of celebrity and continuing mystery.
The perfect gift for Mother’s Day, Amelia is released on DVD on 8 March 2010 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia (Swank; Million Dollar Baby, Boys Don’t Cry) 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.
She was an inspiration to people everywhere, from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Cherry Jones; 24 Season 7) to the men closest to her heart: her husband, promoter and publishing magnate George P. Putnam (Golden Globe® winner Richard Gere; Chicago, Pretty Woman, An Officer and a Gentleman), and her long time friend and lover, pilot Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor; Moulin Rouge!, Miss Potter, Down With Love).
In the summer of 1937, Amelia set off on her most daunting mission yet: a solo flight around the world that she and George both anxiously foresaw as destined, whatever the outcome, to become one of the most talked-about journeys in history.
Amelia Earhart led a bold and uncompromising life as a woman ahead of her time, an adventurer who refused to see limits, and a symbol of American spirit.
From director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair) and Academy® Award winning writer Ron Bass (Rain Man, My Best Friend’s Wedding), Amelia chronicles the bold aviator’s skyrocketing rise to fame; the record-shattering flights that forged her image as 'Lady Lindy'; a love life complicated by her devotion to flight and freedom; and a legacy of courage, social advocacy, and independence.
Don’t miss this captivating and timeless true story available on DVD from 8 March, just in time for Mother’s Day!