The Aviator

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writer: John Logan

Keywords: Drama, Biography, Los Angeles, Airplane Crash

Biographical drama depicts the early years of eccentric tycoon Howard Hughes' storied career.

ABSTRACT
The life of Howard Hughes, a billionaire businessman and financier whose eccentric endeavors in the fields of aviation and entertainment would ultimately give way to debilitating mental illness, receives a screen treatment in The Aviator, a Martin Scorsese-directed epic following the ever-enigmatic figure from early beginnings inheriting the Hughes Tool Company's fortune to a passion for aviation, relationships with a cast of Hollywood starlets, and a growing problem with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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