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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 24, 2005
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Leonardo DiCaprio & Cate Blanchett | |
Performer: | Alan Alda, Gwen Stefani, Adam Scott, John C. Reilly, Ian Holm, Martha Wainwright, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale, Willem Dafoe, Loudon Wainwright III, Danny Huston, Rufus Wainwright & Jude Law | |
Directed by | Martin Scorsese | |
Screenwriting by | John Logan | |
Composition by | Howard Shore | |
Produced by | Michael Mann, Charles Evans Jr., Graham King & Charles Evans | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Richardson |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2004 -
Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Academy Awards 2004 -
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Solidly entertaining and visually lush, but this is uncharacteristically safe territory for a filmmaker who relishes risk and grittiness.
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Midwest Film Journal
This handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese.
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TIME Magazine
[C]ome fly with Scorsese for a fine, forceful film that's always arresting...
Uncut
[T]here's a sleek, almost tactile pleasure to be had in getting swept up in the gale force of a man who smashed through limits because he didn't see them.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 2/4 --
The Aviator does make for a rather fascinating and compelling stand-alone story about an industrious, fastidious, obsessive man...
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Outlook
THE AVIATOR celebrates Scorsese's zest for finding excitement in a period setting….Scorsese has emerged into the full flower of his gifts.
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/5 --
The dramatic conceit that a great, obsessive personality begets an obsessive, dysfunctional personal life and frail mental well-being just isn't that nuanced or tragic.
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Patrick Nabarro
Product Description:
Martin Scorsese's THE AVIATOR is a lavish spectacle of a motion picture that harks back to Hollywood's Golden Era in telling 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 '40s, when he made striking contributions to both the film and aviation industries. At only 25 years of age, Hughes directed the most expensive film ever made up to that point, HELL'S ANGELS (1930), which Scorsese gleefully recreates here in all its sprawling, audacious glory. At the same time, he became known as an unabashed playboy, bedding the likes of Jean Harlow (singer Gwen Stefani), Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale), and Katherine Hepburn (a brilliant Cate Blanchett). In the mid-'30s, he turned his attention to the aviation industry, where he quickly became world-renowned for shattering speed and distance records. He also continued to test the limits of flight technology, building bigger, faster, and stronger aircrafts. All the while, he struggled with an obsessive-compulsive disorder that sent him into a full-fledged tailspin after a near-fatal plane crash. The film concludes with Hughes being called before the Senate in 1947 to defend himself against the nefarious Senator Owen Brewster (Alan Alda), who accused Hughes of taking money from the United States government during wartime.
Stunningly photographed by Robert Richardson, Scorsese's nearly three-hour drama features an impassioned performance by DiCaprio, who is also credited as an executive producer. Although she appears in less than a third of the film, Blanchett delivers a performance that cements her status as one of the finest actresses ever to appear on the big screen.
Stunningly photographed by Robert Richardson, Scorsese's nearly three-hour drama features an impassioned performance by DiCaprio, who is also credited as an executive producer. Although she appears in less than a third of the film, Blanchett delivers a performance that cements her status as one of the finest actresses ever to appear on the big screen.
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