Number: 56

IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (190362 votes)

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Also known as:: The Aviator

Country: USA, 170 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Biography

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio (as Howard Hughes), Cate Blanchett (as Katharine Hepburn), Kate Beckinsale (as Ava Gardner), John C. Reilly (as Noah Dietrich), Alec Baldwin (as Juan Trippe), Alan Alda (as Senator Ralph Owen Brewster), Ian Holm (as Professor Fitz), Danny Huston (as Jack Frye), Gwen Stefani (as Jean Harlow), Jude Law (as Errol Flynn)

Medium: Digital Copy

Plot Outline: The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

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