by rogerco on Sat 7th Aug 2021 DVD proj @ home

Oh to be super rich

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Enjoyable look at Howard Hughes' middle life and the games the super-rich get up to. Leonardo di Caprio plays him as a fairly uncomplicated character with a mental illness and an arrogance born of inherited money. For me, Cate Blanchet didn't really remind me of Katherine Hepburn (as seen on screen) at all - but maybe she was like that in real life.

I'd never heard of the film Hell's Angels or many of the other details of Hughes life - which I was inspired to check out afterwards and seem to be mainly correct if incomplete (no play is made of either his overt racism or his very right wing political views - which may have matured post 1947)