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Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and supervisor of the movie Heck's Angels The movie depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be a successful film producer and an aviation mogul while concurrently growing more unpredictable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Paradoxically, regarding this reviewer is worried one of the most stirring, the majority of remarkable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (admittedly impressive) airborne battle at the start of the movie, or the airplane crash later on, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is barely averse in jeopardy his life in other ways, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later on obtaining TWA off the ground a lot 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.

Appearing at 169 mins, The Pilot tries to remain aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and aviator sunglasses polarized (Recommended Web-site) much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can keep itself in the air just a few mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Detector Bros