Puffed Up Howard Hughes Biopic Alt Film Overview.

Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication 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 Hell's Angels The movie depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be a successful movie manufacturer and an aviation tycoon while simultaneously growing a lot more unsteady due to extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

Ironically, as far as this reviewer is concerned the most mixing, many remarkable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The aviator nation sweatshirt isn't the (undoubtedly outstanding) airborne fight at the beginning of the film, or the plane accident in the future, or any one of the social goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse at risking his life in various other methods, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground much to the dismay of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Clocking in at 169 mins, The Pilot tries to stay up, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can maintain itself airborne only a few mins at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Detector Bros