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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and director of the movie Heck's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective film producer and an aeronautics tycoon while at the same time growing much more unpredictable because of serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Ironically, regarding this reviewer is worried the most stirring, Bookmarks - Get More Information, a lot of unforgettable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (unquestionably impressive) airborne fight at the beginning of the movie, or the airplane collision in the future, or any of the social goings-on.

It is a historical epic that focused on a key period in the life of Howard Hughes one of the most arguably vital and popular men of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a full success, nor among his ideal motion pictures, I still find it to be much more entertaining than most of junk Hollywood craps out on a regular basis.

Appearing at 169 mins, The Aviator attempts to stay aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can keep itself airborne just a few minutes at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator photos: Miramax Warner Bros