Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel leader and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes ended up being an effective movie producer and an air travel mogul while concurrently expanding much more unstable because of extreme obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The short but much advertised flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Beach The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis built by New Bargain Studios get on screen at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

It is a historic legendary that focused on a crucial period in the life of Howard Hughes among the most perhaps essential and well-known men of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a complete success, neither one of his best motion pictures, I still find it to be a lot more amusing than the majority of junk Hollywood craps out on a regular basis.

Clocking in at 169 mins, The aviator nation hat tries to remain aloft, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture jumbo can maintain itself in the air just a couple of mins at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Warner Bros