Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be a successful film manufacturer and an aeronautics magnate while simultaneously expanding extra unstable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Paradoxically, as far as this reviewer is concerned one of the most mixing, most remarkable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (unquestionably impressive) aerial fight at the beginning of the movie, or the plane accident later, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.
Besides, Hughes is barely averse in danger his life in various other means, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground a lot to the dismay of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The aviator nation hat with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.
Clocking in at 169 mins, The Pilot attempts to remain aloft, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture jumbo can keep itself airborne just a few minutes at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator images: Miramax Warner Bros