Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be an effective movie manufacturer and Bookmarks an aeronautics magnate while simultaneously growing extra unstable due to serious obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

Actually, regarding this reviewer is concerned 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 film, or the aircraft accident later on, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse at risking his life in various other ways, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later on getting TWA off the ground much to the dismay of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers needed to concentrate both on previous accounts of Hughes' actions along with the moment period, considered that when Hughes was struggling with the disorder, there was no psychiatric interpretation of what troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Aviator was launched in the United States on December 25, 2004, to favorable testimonials with doubters praising Scorsese's direction, its cinematography and the efficiencies by DiCaprio and Blanchett.