Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and supervisor of the film Heck's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be a successful movie manufacturer and an aeronautics magnate while at the same time expanding extra unsteady because of serious obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).
Paradoxically, regarding this reviewer is concerned one of the most stirring, many unforgettable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (undoubtedly excellent) aerial fight at the start of the film, or the airplane crash in the future, or any of the social goings-on.
It is a historic legendary that concentrated on an essential period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most popular and perhaps vital guys of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a full success, nor one of his ideal films, I still find it to be a lot more enjoyable than most of junk Hollywood blacks out on an once a week basis.
Appearing at 169 mins, The Pilot tries to remain up, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can maintain itself airborne only a few mins at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator nation sweatshirt pink photos: Miramax Detector Bros