Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and supervisor of the film Heck's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became a successful movie producer and an aeronautics magnate while concurrently expanding a lot more unpredictable because of serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The much but brief heralded flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Beach The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis constructed by New Deal Studios are on display screen at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

It is a historic legendary that focused on an essential duration in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most popular and probably important males of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a full success, neither among his best flicks, I still discover it to be more amusing than most of junk Hollywood craps out on a weekly basis.

Appearing at 169 minutes, The aviator nation sweatshirt sale attempts to stay aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic jumbo can maintain itself airborne only a few mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Detector Bros