Amelia Earhart, the great pioneer aviatrix, has been impersonated on screen by numerous actresses, among them Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Diane Keaton and Amy Adams. But never as convincingly as she is by Hilary Swank in this immensely enjoyably biopic from the Indian director who made her name with Salaam Bombay!. With the right short haircut, some orthodontic effects and sporting her regular radiant smile, Swank bears an uncanny resemblance to Earhart and the film borrows the device Billy Wilder used in his Lindbergh film, Spirit of St Louis, of telling her story in flashbacks from an epic flight. In her case, it's the doomed round-the-world trip she embarked on in 1937 in her 40th year, accompanied by ace celestial ...