I agree that Hilary Swank did an excellent job portraying Amelia so much so that at the end when old film excerpts are shown of the real Amelia one can't see a difference between the two. Richard Gere does a good G P and the rest of the cast is good in their roles. It was excellent!! My only disappointment was it didn't cover her time in Chicago, but it didn't and couldn't cover many other aspects of her early life because what it did was 2 hrs!! Overall, an excellent receation of the life and times of a real person!!