Mira Nair's biopic is a tinny and barnacled affair, showcasing a peculiarly awful performance from Hilary Swank, says Xan Brooks

• Xan Brooks
• The Guardian, Friday 13 November 2009

Amelia Earhart vanished somewhere over the Pacific in 1937, during the final leg of a round-the-world flight. Now, ­belatedly, the wreckage has washed ashore. Mira Nair's biopic is a tinny and barnacled affair, showcasing a peculiarly awful performance from Hilary Swank as the self-styled "vagabond of the air", who tackles both literal and emotional storms with a constant, toothy grin. The ocean, I decided, was welcome to her.

­belatedly - z opóźnieniem

biopic - film biograficzny

literal - dosłowny

showcase - pokazywać, prezentować

tackle - zmagać się z

tinny - partacki, tandetny

vagabond - włóćzęga

vanish - znikać

wreckage - szcżątki, gruzy

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