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Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became a successful movie producer and an aviation magnate while at the same time growing a lot more unsteady because of serious obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

Paradoxically, regarding this reviewer is worried one of the most stirring, the majority of memorable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (admittedly outstanding) airborne battle at the start of the film, or the plane crash later, or any one of the interpersonal goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is barely averse in jeopardy his life in other methods, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on getting TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The aviator sunglasses for small faces with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers needed to focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' actions in addition to the time period, given that when Hughes was struggling with the disorder, there was no psychological definition wherefore troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Aviator was released in the USA on December 25, 2004, to positive reviews with critics praising Scorsese's instructions, its cinematography and the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett.