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Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and director of the film Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes ended up being an effective movie manufacturer and an aviation magnate while concurrently growing a lot more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

Ironically, as for this reviewer is worried the most mixing, most remarkable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (undoubtedly remarkable) aerial battle at the start of the film, or the aircraft accident in the future, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.

It is a historical legendary that concentrated on a crucial period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most perhaps essential and renowned men of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a complete success, nor one of his best movies, Bookmarks I still discover it to be much more amusing than most of scrap Hollywood craps out on a weekly basis.

Clocking in at 169 minutes, The Aviator attempts to remain aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture jumbo 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