Based on 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 Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes ended up being an effective film manufacturer and an aviation magnate while all at once growing extra unpredictable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).
Ironically, regarding this customer is concerned the most mixing, the majority of memorable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (admittedly outstanding) airborne battle at the start of the film, or the plane crash in the future, or any of the social goings-on.
Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in jeopardy his life in other methods, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later on obtaining TWA off the ground a lot to the dismay 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 mins, The Pilot attempts to stay up, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can maintain itself airborne just a couple of mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator Bookmarks images: Miramax Detector Bros