Bloated Howard Hughes Biopic Alt Movie Guide.

Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film shows the life of Howard Hughes, Bookmarks an air travel leader and supervisor of the film Heck's Angels The movie represents his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became a successful movie manufacturer and an aeronautics magnate while simultaneously growing extra unpredictable due to serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Ironically, regarding this reviewer is concerned one of the most mixing, a lot of remarkable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (admittedly remarkable) aerial battle at the beginning of the film, or the aircraft accident later, or any of the social goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is barely averse in jeopardy his life in other ways, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground a lot to the dismay of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Clocking in at 169 minutes, The Pilot tries to remain up, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can keep itself airborne just a couple of minutes each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot pictures: Miramax Warner Bros