Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and director of the film Hell's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes ended up being a successful film producer and an aeronautics magnate while simultaneously growing extra unsteady because of extreme obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The much but short declared flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis built by New Deal Studios are on screen at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

It is a historic epic that concentrated on a key period in the life of Howard Hughes one of the most well-known and arguably vital guys of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a total success, neither among his best motion pictures, I still find it to be extra enjoyable than most of scrap Hollywood craps out on a regular basis.

Clocking in at 169 mins, The Aviator attempts to remain aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can keep itself in the air just a few minutes each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Bookmarks; Www.protopage.com blog entry, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Warner Bros