Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and director of the film Heck's Angels The movie represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective film producer and an aviation mogul while all at once expanding more unpredictable because of serious obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

Ironically, as far as this customer is worried the most mixing, most remarkable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (unquestionably impressive) airborne fight at the start of the movie, aviator mastercard travel benefits or the airplane crash later on, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.

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

Clocking in at 169 mins, 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 big can keep itself airborne only a few mins at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Detector Bros