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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and director of the film Heck's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be a successful movie manufacturer and an aeronautics magnate while at the same time growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The brief however much proclaimed flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis built by New Bargain Studios get on display screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

It is a historic impressive that concentrated on a crucial duration in the life of Howard Hughes one of one of the most well-known and perhaps essential males of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a total success, neither one of his best films, I still discover it to be much more entertaining than the majority of scrap Hollywood craps out on an once a week basis.

Clocking in at 169 minutes, The aviator nation hat tries to remain up, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can keep itself in the air just a couple of mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator photos: Miramax Warner Bros