The Aviator 2004 .

Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and supervisor Bookmarks of the film Heck's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective movie manufacturer and an aeronautics magnate while concurrently expanding much more unsteady because of serious obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The much yet brief heralded flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis constructed by New Deal Studios get on display at the Evergreen Aeronautics Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

It is a historic epic that focused on a vital period in the life of Howard Hughes one of the most arguably vital and renowned men of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a complete success, nor one of his finest flicks, I still locate it to be extra entertaining than the majority of junk Hollywood craps out on a regular basis.

Appearing at 169 mins, The Pilot attempts to remain aloft, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can maintain itself in the air just a couple of mins at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator images: Miramax Warner Bros