The Pilot 2004 Film .

Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and director of the film Heck's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective movie producer and an air travel mogul while concurrently expanding a lot more unpredictable due to serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Paradoxically, as for this customer is worried the most stirring, the majority of remarkable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (admittedly remarkable) airborne battle at the beginning of the movie, or the plane accident later on, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in danger his life in other ways, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later on obtaining TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Appearing at 169 mins, The Aviator Bookmarks attempts to remain aloft, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic jumbo can maintain itself in the air just a few mins at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Warner Bros