The Aviator (2004)
Genre:
Biography / Drama (more)
Tagline: Some men dream the future. He built it. (more)
Plot Outline: A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s. (more) (view trailer)
User Comments:
A Striking and Ambitious Saga
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User Rating:
 
7.6/10 (29,366 votes)
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual content, nudity, language and a crash sequence.
Runtime:
170 min
Country:
USA / Japan / Germany
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White / Color
Sound Mix:
DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Certification:
Taiwan:PG-12 / Portugal:M/12 / Malaysia:U / Argentina:13 / Australia:M / Brazil:12 / Canada:G (Quebec) / Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) / Chile:TE / Czech Republic:15 / Finland:K-11 / Germany:12 / Hong Kong:IIA / Iceland:12 / Ireland:12 (video rating) / Ireland:15 (original rating) / Netherlands:12 / Norway:11 / Philippines:PG-13 / Singapore:PG / Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) / Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) / Switzerland:14 (canton of Zurich) / UK:12A (original rating) / UK:12 (video rating) (2005) / USA:PG-13 (certificate #41156) / Indonesia:Dewasa / Sweden:11 / South Korea:15 / Denmark:11
Trivia:
At one point in the film, Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett) address each other as "City Mouse" and "Country Mouse" - a detail lifted from telegrams exchanged between the two that were auctioned off after Hepburn's death in 2003, in which they address each other by those names.
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Goofs:
Anachronisms: Whilst Katherine Hepburn and Howard Hughes are dining in the Coconut Grove, she states "Haven't you heard I'm being labeled box office poison..." At this point in "The Aviator" it is 1935. Katherine and a list of other stars including Mae West and Joan Crawford were not listed as box office poison until 1938 by a board of film distributors.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Allene Hughes:
Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e.
Young Howard Hughes:
Quarantine. Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e. Quarantine.
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Awards:
Won 5 Oscars.
Another 43 wins
&
60 nominations
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User Comments:
11 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
A Striking and Ambitious Saga, 14 January 2005
Author:
RobertF87 from Scotland
This film is about the world famous multi-millionaire Howard Hughes.
However, if the only thing you know about Hughes was that he was a
recluse who secreted himself inside his hotel in Las Vegas and was
obsessed with cleanliness, you may be in for a surprise. The film deals
with Hughes' life before all that.
After a brief prologue showing Hughes as a child with his mother
advising him on cleanliness, we move forward to 1927 with an adult
Hughes (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) directing his hugely risky film
"Hell's Angels". "The Aviator" takes in Hughes' film-making
achievements, his romances with some of the most beautiful women of the
day (including Katherine Hepburn (a superb Cate Blanchett) and Ava
Gardner (Kate Beckinsale)) and his passion for aviation. The picture of
Howard Hughes that emerges from the film is of a brilliant man who was
a ruthless perfectionist, constantly risking ruin and even death for
his goals. This all makes his eventual fate all the more sad.
The film is brilliantly made, the cast are all very good in their roles
(especially, as mentioned earlier, Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn) and
despite lasting almost three hours, it is never dull. The main flaw,
however, is that you never learn much about Hughes. Some more on his
background would certainly have been welcome.
Any film by Scorsese, however, is worth seeing and this is no
exception.
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