Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The movie depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended up being a successful film producer and an air travel mogul while at the same time growing extra unpredictable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Ironically, regarding this reviewer is concerned the most mixing, most unforgettable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (unquestionably impressive) airborne fight at the beginning of the movie, or the aircraft accident later on, or any of the social goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse at risking his life in various other ways, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The aviator nation sweatshirt purple with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers had to focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' habits as well as the moment duration, considered that when Hughes was dealing with the problem, there was no psychological definition of what troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was released in the United States on December 25, 2004, to positive testimonials with movie critics applauding Scorsese's direction, its cinematography and the efficiencies by DiCaprio and Blanchett.