The Pilot.

Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and director of the movie Heck's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective movie manufacturer and an aviation tycoon while concurrently growing more unpredictable due to extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

Ironically, regarding this reviewer is worried the most stirring, most unforgettable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (admittedly excellent) airborne battle at the start of the film, or the airplane collision later on, or any one of the social goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is barely averse at risking his life in various other methods, ending up being 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 with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Clocking in at 169 minutes, The Aviator tries to stay aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can maintain itself airborne just a couple of mins at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator mastercard activate photos: Miramax Warner Bros