Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and director of the film Heck's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes ended up being a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while all at once expanding much more unsteady as a result of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Ironically, as for this reviewer is concerned one of the most mixing, many remarkable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (admittedly outstanding) airborne battle at the start of the film, or Bookmarks the airplane crash in the future, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.

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

Clocking in at 169 mins, The Aviator tries to stay aloft, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can keep itself in the air just a couple of minutes at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator images: Miramax Warner Bros