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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 air travel leader and director of the movie Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be a successful movie manufacturer and an aeronautics magnate while at the same time growing extra unstable due to serious obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

Ironically, as far as this reviewer is concerned the most stirring, many unforgettable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (unquestionably impressive) aerial fight at the start of the film, or the aircraft collision later, or any of the social goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in jeopardy his life in various other ways, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and Bookmarks later on getting TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers had to concentrate both on previous accounts of Hughes' behaviors in addition to the time period, considered that when Hughes was struggling with the disorder, there was no psychiatric interpretation wherefore troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Aviator was released in the United States on December 25, 2004, to positive evaluations with movie critics commending Scorsese's direction, its cinematography and the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett.