The Aviator DVD Report

Martin Scorsese's The Aviator tells 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 late 1940s, when he made some of his most striking contributions to both the film and aviation industries. In 1930 at 25 years of age, Hughes directed the most expensive film ever made up to that point, Hells Angels. At the same time, he became known as an unabashed playboy, bedding the likes of Jean Harlow, Ava Gardner and Katherine Hepburn.

In the mid 1930s, Hughes 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 aeroplanes. All the while, he was aware of and 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 called to and beating the Senates nefarious Senator Owen Brewster (Alan Alda), who accused Hughes of taking money from the United States government during wartime.

Overall if you watch this you in for a real treat, Scorsese and DeCaprio at their best!

Here is the trailer...