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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and director of the movie Heck's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be an effective film producer and an aviation tycoon while concurrently growing extra unsteady because of extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

Ironically, as far as this reviewer is worried the most stirring, many remarkable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (unquestionably remarkable) airborne battle at the start of the film, or the aircraft crash later on, or any one of the social goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse at risking his life in various other means, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Appearing at 169 minutes, Bookmarks (learn more) The Aviator tries to remain aloft, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can keep itself airborne only a few mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator photos: Miramax Warner Bros