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Release date United States: Saturday, December 17, 2005, DVD release: TBA

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast:

Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes
Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn
Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner
John C. Reilly as Noah Dietrich
Alec Baldwin as Juan Trippe
Alan Alda as Senator Ralph Owen Brewster
Ian Holm as Professor Fitz
Danny Huston as Jack Frye
Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow
Jude Law as Errol Flynn
Adam Scott as Johnny Meyer
Matt Ross as Glenn Odekirk
Kelli Garner as Faith Domergue
Frances Conroy as Mrs. Hepburn
Brent Spiner as Robert Gross

About:

Phenomenal public success contrasts with private behaviors close to madness: Howard Hughes from the late 1920s to the late 1940s, from "Hells Angels" (spending a fortune on details) through the only flight of the Hercules, a huge, money-losing transport plane. Along the way, the public Hughes sees the big picture - in movies and in aviation, building TWA and leading it through a fight with Pan Am and the US Senate. In private, phobias and compulsions threaten him with self-imposed solitary confinement. How long can his imagination, drive, and the sympathies of Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and the men who work for him stave off these internal disorders?

Genres:
Drama - Biography

Producers: Chris Brigham

Writers: John Logan

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