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Amelia

film by Nair [2009]

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In Mira Nair: Feature films
Nair subsequently directed Amelia (2009), a biopic about the American aviator Amelia Earhart, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012), which follows a Pakistani émigré wrestling with his cultural identity in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The biopic Queen of Katwe (2016) depicts the life of Ugandan chess…
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Gere

In Richard Gere
Gere’s later films include Amelia (2009), a biopic about the American aviator Amelia Earhart (played by Hilary Swank), and the crime drama Brooklyn’s Finest (2009). During that same year Gere portrayed a college professor in the film Hachi: A Dog’s Tale that was based on the true story of…
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Swank

In Hilary Swank
… (2007), the Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia (2009), the thriller The Resident (2011), and the western The Homesman (2014).
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