The Pilot Reviews.

Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and director of the film Heck's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became a successful film producer and an air travel magnate while concurrently expanding extra unsteady due to severe obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The much however short advertised trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was genuinely recreated in the Port of Long Beach The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis constructed by New Bargain Studios are on display screen at the Evergreen Aviation Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

It is a historical epic that concentrated on a key period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most probably essential and well-known guys of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a total success, neither among his finest motion pictures, I still discover it to be extra entertaining than the majority of junk Hollywood craps out on a weekly basis.

Appearing at 169 minutes, The Pilot attempts to remain aloft, however 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 just a few minutes at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator nation near me pictures: Miramax Warner Bros