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Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and director of the film Heck's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective movie producer and an aviation mogul while simultaneously growing extra unpredictable as a result of extreme obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

Ironically, as far as this customer is concerned one of the most mixing, the majority of unforgettable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (unquestionably impressive) airborne fight at the start of the movie, or the aircraft crash later on, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.

It is a historic epic that concentrated on an essential period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most probably essential and well-known men of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a total success, neither one of his best motion pictures, I still find it to be much more entertaining than most of junk Hollywood craps out on a weekly basis.

Clocking in at 169 minutes, The Aviator tries to stay up, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can keep itself airborne just a couple of minutes at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Bookmarks Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Warner Bros