The Aviator.

Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie shows the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel leader and supervisor of the movie Hell's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became an effective movie producer and an aeronautics magnate while simultaneously growing much more unstable due to serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Ironically, as far as this reviewer is worried one of the most stirring, most remarkable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (admittedly excellent) aerial fight at the beginning of the film, or the aircraft collision later on, or any of the social goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse in danger his life in other ways, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground a lot to the discouragement of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Appearing at 169 minutes, The Pilot tries to remain aloft, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), Bookmarks this motion picture jumbo can maintain itself airborne just a couple of mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator photos: Miramax Detector Bros