Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and director of the film Heck's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended up being a successful movie manufacturer and an aeronautics magnate while simultaneously expanding much more unstable because of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Ironically, as far as this customer is worried the most stirring, many memorable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (undoubtedly impressive) aerial fight at the beginning of the film, or the airplane collision in the future, or any one of the social goings-on.
It is a historical legendary that focused on an essential period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most popular and probably essential men of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a full success, neither one of his best flicks, I still discover it to be a lot more entertaining than the majority of scrap Hollywood craps out on a weekly basis.
Clocking in at 169 minutes, The Pilot attempts to stay aloft, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can keep itself in the air only a few mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator Nation Sweatshirt Sale images: Miramax Detector Bros