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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel leader and director of the movie Hell's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became a successful movie producer and an aeronautics magnate while all at once growing a lot more unstable because of serious obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

Ironically, as for this reviewer is worried one of the most stirring, most unforgettable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (undoubtedly impressive) airborne battle at the start of the film, or Bookmarks the aircraft crash in the future, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse at risking his life in various other methods, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers had to concentrate both on previous accounts of Hughes' habits along with the time period, given that when Hughes was suffering from the disorder, there was no psychological interpretation of what troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was released in the United States on December 25, 2004, to favorable reviews with critics applauding Scorsese's instructions, its cinematography and the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett.