Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and director of the movie Heck's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes ended up being an effective film manufacturer and an aeronautics tycoon while simultaneously growing more unstable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).
Ironically, as far as this customer is concerned one of the most stirring, many remarkable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (unquestionably impressive) airborne battle at the beginning of the movie, or the aircraft collision later on, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.
It is a historic epic that focused on an essential period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most renowned and probably vital guys of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a total success, nor one of his best flicks, I still locate it to be extra enjoyable than the majority of scrap Hollywood blacks out on a weekly basis.
Clocking in at 169 minutes, The Pilot attempts to remain aloft, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture jumbo can maintain itself airborne just a couple of mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Bookmarks Miramax Detector Bros