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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel leader and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be an effective movie producer and an air travel tycoon while simultaneously growing much more unpredictable due to serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Paradoxically, as far as this reviewer is worried the most stirring, most unforgettable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The aviator nation sale isn't the (undoubtedly outstanding) airborne fight at the beginning of the film, or the airplane crash later, or any one of the interpersonal goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse at risking his life in other methods, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground a lot 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.

The filmmakers had to focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' actions in addition to the time duration, considered that when Hughes was dealing with the disorder, there was no psychiatric meaning wherefore troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was released in the United States on December 25, 2004, to positive reviews with doubters commending Scorsese's direction, its cinematography and the efficiencies by DiCaprio and Blanchett.