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The Aviator (2004)

The Aviator
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Adam Scott, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin

A biographical chronicle which charts the early years of famous tycoon, Howard Hughes (1905-1976), whose eclectic career spanned across everything from oil, for which he cared little, to film, casinos, and aviation--as he turned millions of dollars into billions.

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88% liked it
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PG-13, 2 hrs. 35 min.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Release Date: Dec 17, 2004
DVD Release Date: May 24, 2005

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4 days ago
I can't believe how engrossing and interesting this biopic is.
7 days ago
Scorese's beautiful filmmaking to a boring script. Seriously don't care about crazy people that kept pee in a bottle.
8 days ago
LOVE this movie, i could watch it anytime anywhere. This and The Departed have shown how DiCaprio has gotten away from the Titanic days, thank god, he turly is a great actor. Its very interesting to watch his character go from one stage of his diseas... (read more)
8 days ago
I can understanding his feelings... This Story dosent make a fun .
This is Human deeply story.
9 days ago
Very good, but it's long, and I have no desire to sit through it again.

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1720 days ago
Kurt Loder, MTV
Another of [Scorsese's] masterpieces, crowded with superb performances. It may be two and a half hours long, but it comes at you like a B-52 bomber, and it flies by.
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1804 days ago
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
While we leave the film without much more of an understanding of Hughes' legendary obsessions than we did upon entering, we nonetheless leave with a sense of having been glamorously, thoroughly entertained -- which, these days, is a rare pleasure.
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1804 days ago
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
What a sad man. What brief glory. What an enthralling film, 166 minutes, and it races past.
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1808 days ago
David Edelstein, Slate
Few biopics with this kind of crazy scope have ever been so seamless.
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1810 days ago
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
It's stylish and fleet, and even though it's meticulously detailed, Scorsese's devotion to technique never weighs it down.
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