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Aviator [WS] [2 Discs]

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Released: 2005-05-24

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Aviator [WS] [2 Discs] DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Sam Hennings, Vincent Laresca, Rufus Wainwright, Justin Shilton, Chris Ufland, Josie Maran, Nellie Sciutto, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Gwen Stefani, Jude Law, Adam Scott, Matt Ross, Kelli Garner, Frances Conroy, Brent Spiner, Stanley de Santis, Edward Herrmann, Willem Dafoe, Kenneth Walsh, J.C. MacKenzie

Director(s): Martin Scorsese

Features:
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Commentary by Martin Scorsese
Languages: English & Français (dubbed in Quebec)
Subtitles: English, Français & Español
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Get into the cockpit with fabulous documentaries on Howard Hughes and the filmmakers at work: Making The Aviator; The Role of Howard Hughes in Aviation History; Modern Marvels: Howard Hughes, a History Channel Documentary; The Affliction of Howard Hughes: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; The Visual Effects of The Aviator; Constructing The Aviator; Costuming and Scoring The Aviator; The Aviator and the Age of Glamour; An Evening With Leonardo DiCaprio and Alan Alda

Aviator [WS] [2 Discs] DVD Details

Video:
Cinemascope
Audio:
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Dolby Digital Surround
Language:
English
French
Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish

Running Time: 170
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 2
UPC: 085393893927
Product Code: WHV38939DVD
Format: DVD
Year:2004
Studio: Warner Home Video

Aviator [WS] [2 Discs] DVD Summary Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes.

The Aviator follows Hughes (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) as the twentysomething millionaire, having already made a fortune improving the design of oil-drilling bits, comes to Hollywood with an interest in getting into the picture business.

It doesn't take long for Hughes, with his passion for airplanes, to jump from producer to director of his first major film project, a World War I air epic called Hell's Angels, which took three years to complete thanks to the shift from silent to sound filming and Hughes' relentless perfectionism.

However, the film was a massive hit, and the eccentric inventor became a mogul in Hollywood, making Jean Harlow (Gwen Stefani) a star and enjoying a romance with Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett).

But Hollywood's old-boy network never fully accepted Hughes, and in time his passion for flying began to reclaim his attentions as he began designing new planes, setting air speed records, flying around the world, and risking his life testing aircraft.

Hughes also found time to romance Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale) and founded his own airline, Trans-World Airlines, though as his ideas became bolder, his approach became more eccentric, and he gained many powerful enemies, including the head of Pan-American Airlines, Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), and Senator Ralph Owen Brewster (Alan Alda), who attempted to prove that Hughes' radical design ideas were actually part of an effort to bilk taxpayers for millions of dollars through government contracts.

The Aviator's star-studded cast also includes John C.

Reilly, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm, and Frances Conroy.