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Drama 170 min PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes86%Metacritic77IMDb
Some men dream the future. He built it.
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Epic, meticulous, prestige and resolved.
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Howard Hughes (Leonardo Di Caprio) had made his money from oil and was obsessed with aviation. Pumping a great deal of his money into that still fairly embryonic industry, he designs his own outwardly more outlandish aircraft that push the boundaries of size and capacity - all against a scepticism from his investors and even his closest friends like Dietrich (John C. Reilly not Marlene). He sees a vision for international flying that inspires the expansion of TWA and that earns him the enmity of rival Pan Am owner Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin) who drafts in his senatorial bloodhound Brewster (Alan Alda) to accuse Hughes of wartime profiteering and corruption. Meantime, his personal life is only marginally less turbulent with affairs with Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett) and then Ava Gardner (Kate Beckisale) adding a certain spice to his life and to these colourful proceedings. For me, the film comes most alive with the congressional spats between Di Caprio and an on-form Alda for that's where I felt the writing showed Hughes at his most robustly defiant. Blanchett doesn't so much play Hepburn as mimic her, right down to that instantly recognisable drawl of her's, and she does it wel
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