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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 aeronautics pioneer and director of the film Heck's Angels The movie represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be a successful movie manufacturer and an aeronautics tycoon while at the same time expanding extra unpredictable due to severe obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

Ironically, as far as this reviewer is worried the most stirring, most memorable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (unquestionably remarkable) aerial battle at the beginning of the movie, or the aircraft accident later, or any one of the interpersonal goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse in jeopardy his life in various other ways, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on obtaining TWA off the ground much to the dismay of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Appearing at 169 minutes, The Pilot tries to stay up, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can maintain itself in the air just a few minutes each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator sunglasses wiki images: Miramax Detector Bros