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Year of U.S. Release: 2004
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale, Cate Blanchett, Kelli Garner, Danny Hughes, Matt Ross, Adam Scott, Gwen Stefani, Nellie Sciutto, Willem Dafoe.
Director: Martin Scorsese Screenwriter(s): John Logan Producer(s): Michael Mann, Sandy Climan, Charles Evans Jr, Graham King
Distributor: Miramax Films
Prod. Cost: $112,000,000 (Estimated)
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Drama, Biography Runtime: 2 hrs. 35 min. U.S. Release Date: December 25, 2004 (Wide)
U.S. DVD Release Date: May 24, 2005
Rated for thematic elements, sexual content, nudity, language, and a crash sequence.
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''The Aviator'' tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), the eccentric billionaire industrialist and Hollywood film mogul, famous for romancing some of the world's most beautiful women. The drama recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s though the 1940s, an epoch when Hughes was directing and producing Hollywood movies and test flying innovative aircraft he designed and created. A daredevil pilot, the most famous flyer since Charles Lindbergh, Hughes became a major force in commercial aviation. He was a mythic figure in the America of his day, imbued with an aura of excitement, glamour and mystery. "The Aviator" looks at Hughes' emotional life, and his love affairs with two Hollywood legends, elegant, Yankee-bred screen star Katharine Hepburn in the 1930s, and the sensual and luminous screen beauty of the 1940s, Ava Gardner. It also chronicles Hughes' struggle with his physical disabilities and phobias, and with his increasingly erratic, obsessive-compulsive behavior that leads him ultimately to isolate himself from his associates and withdraw from the world.
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