Amelia stars two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, the legendary aviatrix and enigmatic symbol of the American free spirit, who was guided by a profound curiousity for everything life had to offer.

Earhart's early aviation triumphs and meteoric rise to fame and fortune were propelled by her tempestuous partnership and eventual marriage to publisher George Putnam (Richard Gere).

Bound by mutual ambition, admiration and , ultimately a great love, their bond could not be broken even with her brief passionate affair withe Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor).

In Amelia's attempt to break the world record for an around-the-world flight, her life was tragically cut short with her mysterious and untimely disappearance over the South Pacific in 1937.