Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The movie represents his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended up being an effective movie manufacturer and an air travel tycoon while at the same time expanding much more unpredictable due to serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Actually, as far as this reviewer is concerned one of the most stirring, a lot of memorable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (admittedly remarkable) aerial fight at the beginning of the film, or the airplane collision later, or any of the social goings-on.

It is a historical impressive that focused on a key period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most renowned and perhaps essential men of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a complete success, neither among his best flicks, I still find it to be much more enjoyable than the majority of scrap Hollywood blacks out on a weekly basis.

Appearing at 169 minutes, The Pilot tries to remain up, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic jumbo can keep itself in the air just a few minutes at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator nation kids photos: Miramax Warner Bros