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Hepburn grows tired of Hughes' eccentricity and workaholism, and leaves him for fellow actor Spencer Tracy Hughes quickly finds a brand-new love passion with 15-year-old Faith Domergue, and later on starlet Ava Gardner Nevertheless, he still has feelings for Hepburn, and kickbacks a press reporter to maintain reports regarding her and the married Tracy out of the press.

Paradoxically, regarding this reviewer is worried one of the most mixing, many remarkable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (admittedly impressive) airborne battle at the beginning of the film, or the plane accident later, or aviator nation sweatshirt lightning bolt any of the social goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse in jeopardy his life in other methods, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on getting TWA off the ground a lot to the dismay of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

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