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RELEASE DATE December 17, 2004 DIRECTOR Martin Scorsese CAST Leonardo DiCaprio , Cate Blanchett , Kate Beckinsale , John C. Reilly , Alec Baldwin , Alan Alda RUNTIME 169 MAIN GENRE Biography WRITERS John Logan TAGLINE Some men dream the future. He built it . WEBSITE http://www.aviatormovie.com SUMMARY One of the most compelling figures of the 20th century, Howard Hughes was an influential innovator, savvy industrialist, glamorous motion picture producer and quintessential American risk-taker -- but he thought of himself first and foremost as an aviator. With THE AVIATOR, director Martin Scorsese focuses his storytelling lens on the most prolific period of Hughes’ life: the period from the mid-1920s through the 1940s, when Hughes’ daring-do and passion for flight drove his pioneering efforts in both aviation and the movies.