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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and supervisor of the movie Hell's Angels The movie depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes ended up being an effective movie producer and an aviation mogul while simultaneously expanding much more unstable as a result of severe obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

Actually, regarding this reviewer is worried one of the most stirring, most memorable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (undoubtedly excellent) airborne fight at the beginning of the movie, or the aircraft accident later, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.

It is a historic epic that focused on an essential duration in the life of Howard Hughes among the most renowned and perhaps essential men of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a full success, nor among his finest flicks, I still discover it to be more amusing than the majority of junk Hollywood craps out on an once a week basis.

Clocking in at 169 mins, The Pilot tries to stay 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 only a few mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator Nation Malibu pictures: Miramax Warner Bros