Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and director of the movie Heck's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective film producer and an air travel tycoon while concurrently expanding a lot more unsteady because of severe obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

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

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse at risking his life in other ways, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground much to the dismay of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers had to concentrate both on previous accounts of Hughes' actions along with the moment period, given that when Hughes was suffering from the problem, there was no psychological meaning for what ailed him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Aviator was launched in the USA on December 25, Bookmarks 2004, to favorable testimonials with doubters applauding Scorsese's instructions, its cinematography and the efficiencies by DiCaprio and Blanchett.