Where others saw obstacles, Hughes saw opportunity. A daredevil, he risked his fortune, and life, on experimental airplanes that set new records in speed and size. Hughes need only his small-minded rivals, with their limited imaginations, telling him what was impossible, to climb into the cockpit and prove them wrong. He was also a playboy, linked romantically to the brightest starlets of hi time—Katherine Hepburn, Ava Gardener—but happiness was more elusive than actresses. Hughes was tortured by a secret that tore him from those who loved him. He was haunted by an affliction he fought desperately to conceal. THE AVIATOR ranges from the halls of Congress to the tony estates of Connecticut to the glamorous studios of Hollywood. Here, plot and poetry blend in one of the most beautifully written biopic in modern cinema.

Holly and Gerry are the kind of perfectly happy married couple that other envy. Then, at the age of thirty, Gerry is diagnosed with a terrible illness. Months after Garry’s death, Holly receives a package of letters that he’s left for her, instructing her to perform a series of unexpected tasks. With the help of the letters—and her fun, quick-witted girlfriends and a raucously endearing family that smothers, loves, and drives her crazy—Holly wobbles, weaves, and jokes her way toward a new life, even larger than the one that she’s been forced to leave behind.

Wildly charismatic. Impossibly brilliant. Totally rebellious. Those are just a few ways to describe GOOD WILL HUNTING. For the first twenty years of his life, he has called the shots. Now, he’s about to meet his match. Like his friends in his rough, working- class South Boston neighborhood, Will does menial jobs between stints at the local bar, and run-ins with the law. He’s never been to college. Yet he can summon obscure historical references from a photographic memory, and almost instantly solve math problems that frustrate Nobel Prize—winning professors. The one thing this remarkably bright, angry young man can’t do is talk his way out of a pending jail sentence. His only hope is Sean McGuire, a college professor with an admiration for his emotional struggles and a keen understanding of what it’s like to fight your way through life.