Hepburn wearies of Hughes' eccentricity and workaholism, and leaves him for fellow star Spencer Tracy Hughes quickly finds a new love rate of interest with 15-year-old Faith Domergue, and later on starlet Ava Gardner However, he still has feelings for Hepburn, and allurements a reporter to maintain reports regarding her and the wedded Tracy out of the press.
Paradoxically, as for this reviewer is concerned the most stirring, a lot of remarkable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The aviator mastercard activate isn't the (admittedly outstanding) airborne battle at the start of the movie, or the plane crash in the future, or any one of the social goings-on.
Besides, Hughes is barely averse in jeopardy his life in various other ways, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground a lot to the discouragement 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 stay up, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can keep itself in the air just a couple of mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator photos: Miramax Warner Bros