Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and supervisor of the movie Heck's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended up being an effective film manufacturer and an aeronautics mogul while all at once growing extra unstable due to extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).
Ironically, regarding this reviewer is worried one of the most stirring, many remarkable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (undoubtedly outstanding) airborne fight at the start of the film, or the plane accident in the future, or any of the social goings-on.
Besides, Hughes is hardly averse at risking his life in various other means, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on getting 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.
Appearing at 169 minutes, The Aviator nation sweatshirt purple attempts to remain 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 airborne just a couple of mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator images: Miramax Detector Bros