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Original title: Aviator, The
Release Date
• USA: Dec 17, 2004
• UK: 19 Dec 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: May 24, 2005
Budget USD 100,000,000
BoxOffice: $93.6M
Official Website:
The Aviator Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual content, nudity, language and a crash sequence.
Running Time
2 hours, 46 minutes
Country USA, Japan, Germany
Studio Miramax Films
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Aviator (2004)
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Genre: Drama, Hollywood, Biography, Love, Period Piece, Political, True Story, Epic, World War II, Blackmail, Mental Illness
Tagline: Some men dream the future. He built it.
Plot: Martin Scorsese's THE AVIATOR is a lavish spectacle of a motion picture that harkens back to Hollywood's Golden Era in telling the story of Howard Hughes, one of 20th-century America's most pioneering and influential figures. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eccentric billionaire, Scorsese's biopic concentrates on Hughes's life between the 1920s and '40s, when he made some of his most striking contributions to both the film and aviation industries. At only 25 years of age, Hughes directed the most expensive film ever made up to that point, HELL'S ANGELS (1930), which Scorsese gleefully recreates here in all its sprawling, audacious glory. At the same time, he became known as an unabashed playboy, bedding the likes of Jean Harlow (singer Gwen Stefani), Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale), and Katherine Hepburn (a brilliant Cate Blanchett). In the mid-'30s, he turned his attention to the aviation industry, where he quickly became a world-renowned celebrity for shattering speed and distance records. He also continued to test the limits of flight technology, building bigger, faster, and stronger aircrafts. All the while, he struggled with an obsessive-compulsive mental disorder that sent him into a full-fledged tailspin after a near-fatal plane crash. The film concludes with Hughes being
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An enormously entertaining slice of biographical drama, The Aviator flies like one of Howard Hughes' record-setting speed airplanes.--Todd McCarthy (Variety)
Despite the film's sporadic lulls, both director and star are on full beam. The first and third hours of this 20th-century epic are as dazzling as big-scale movies get.--Mike Clark (USA Today)
Tainted or not, Hughes' life was a remarkable one, and, flawed or not, Scorsese's film version deserves the same accolade.--Kenneth Turan
Scorsese has crafted a rip-roaringly gorgeous-looking, beautifully acted biographical epic. But while firing on all cylinders, there's something oddly distancing about the picture.--Michael Rechtshaffen (Hollywod Reporter)
Running at about three hours, The Aviator is long, and the momentum occasionally flags. The depiction of Hughes's first mental breakdown feels a little obsessive-compulsive itself.--Liam Lacey
Scorsese, I think, is so invested in making The Aviator upbeat and rousing that the movie never quite reveals, the way that "Kinsey" or "Ray" or "A Beautiful Mind" or even a good E! True Hollywood Story do, how its hero's vision and his grand torments could be flip sides of the same temperament.--Owen Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly)
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John Logan
The Last Samurai, Any Given Sunday, Star Trek: Nemesis |
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 | Cate Blanchett
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
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 | Alec Baldwin
Pearl Harbor, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Hunt for Red October |
 | Alan Alda
What Women Want, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Everyone Says I Love You |
 | Ian Holm
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Fifth Element |
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Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Silence of the Lambs |
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| As luscious as the filmmaking craft here is, it lacks the rude vitality, the unpredictability, the pure American craziness of the films that should have won him (Scorsese) the Oscar: "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," and "GoodFellas." --Ty Burr (Boston Globe)
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