The Pilot 2004 .

Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie shows the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel leader and director of the film Heck's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be an effective movie manufacturer and an aeronautics magnate while concurrently growing more unpredictable due to extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The brief however much heralded trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was genuinely recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis developed by New Bargain Studios get on display at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is barely averse in danger his life in various other ways, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on obtaining TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Bookmarks Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Clocking in at 169 mins, The Pilot attempts to stay up, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic jumbo can keep itself in the air just a couple of mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator photos: Miramax Warner Bros