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Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and director of the film Heck's Angels The movie represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be a successful movie producer and an aeronautics mogul while concurrently expanding more unpredictable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Actually, as far as this reviewer is concerned one of the most stirring, the majority of memorable minute in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (undoubtedly excellent) aerial fight at the beginning of the film, or the plane collision later on, or any one of the social goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse in jeopardy his life in other methods, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of 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 remain up, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), Bookmarks this cinematic big can maintain itself in the air just a couple of mins at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator photos: Miramax Warner Bros