Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 170 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- ladykiller
- pilot
- biography
- based on true story
- womanizer
- phobia
- aviation
- period drama
- u.s. congress
- flying boat
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Leonardo DiCaprio
Howard Hughes
Cate Blanchett
Katharine Hepburn
Kate Beckinsale
Ava Gardner
John C. Reilly
Noah Dietrich
- Alec Baldwin — Juan Trippe
- Alan Alda — Senator Ralph Owen Brewster
- Ian Holm — Professor Fitz
- Danny Huston — Jack Frye
- Gwen Stefani — Jean Harlow
- Jude Law — Errol Flynn
- Adam Scott — Johnny Meyer
- Matt Ross — Glenn Odekirk
- Kelli Garner — Faith Domergue
- Frances Conroy — Mrs. Hepburn
- Brent Spiner — Robert Gross
- Directed
- Martin Scorsese
- Written
- John Logan
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 5,984 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Miramax, Initial Entertainment Group, Forward Pass, Appian Way, IMF
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
