Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective movie producer and an air travel mogul while concurrently growing much more unstable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Ironically, as for this customer is concerned the most mixing, many remarkable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (admittedly outstanding) aerial fight at the start of the film, or the airplane collision later, or any one of the interpersonal goings-on.
Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in jeopardy his life in various other means, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later on getting TWA off the ground a lot to the discouragement of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.
Appearing at 169 mins, The Pilot attempts to remain aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture jumbo can maintain itself airborne just a few minutes each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator nation sweatshirt Poshmark photos: Miramax Warner Bros