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Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and supervisor of the movie Hell's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes ended up being a successful film producer and an air travel magnate while simultaneously growing more unsteady due to extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Paradoxically, Bookmarks regarding this reviewer is concerned the most mixing, most memorable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (unquestionably impressive) airborne battle at the beginning of the movie, or the aircraft accident in the future, or any one of the interpersonal goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is barely averse in jeopardy his life in various other methods, becoming 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 Pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Clocking in at 169 minutes, The Pilot tries to remain up, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture jumbo can keep itself in the air only a few minutes each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Detector Bros