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Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical comedy-drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks with Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams, and James Brolin in supporting roles. Jeff Nathanson’s screenplay is based on the semi-autobiographical book of the same name by Frank Abagnale, who claims that before his 19th birthday, he managed to pull off multi-million dollar scams by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish attorney. The veracity of his story is questionable.
A film version of Abagnale’s book of the same name was considered shortly after its publication in 1980, but began in earnest in 1997, when Spielberg’s DreamWorks company purchased the film rights. David Fincher, Gore Verbinski, Lasse Hallström, Miloš Forman, and Cameron Crowe were all considered to direct the film before Spielberg decided to direct it himself. Filming took place from February to May 2002.
The film was released on December 25, 2002, to critical and commercial success. At the 75th Academy Awards, Christopher Walken and John Williams were nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Score, respectively.
In 1963, Frank William Abagnale Jr. lived in New Rochelle, New York, with his father, Frank Abagnale Sr., and his French mother, Paula. During his youth, he witnessed his father’s many scams. Due to Frank Sr.’s tax problems, the family was forced to move into a small apartment.
One day, Frank discovered that his mother was having an affair with his father’s friend, Jack Barnes, at the Rotary Club of New Rochelle. When his parents divorced, Frank ran away. Needing money, he turns to scams to survive, and his schemes become increasingly audacious. He poses as a Pan Am pilot named Frank Taylor and forges airline paychecks. Soon, his fake checks are worth millions of dollars.
News of these crimes reaches the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Agent Carl Hanratty begins tracking Frank. Carl tracks him down at a hotel, but Frank tricks Carl into believing he is a Secret Service agent named Barry Allen. He escapes before Carl realizes he has been tricked.
Frank begins posing as a doctor. As Dr. Frank Conners, he falls in love with Brenda, a naive young nurse. He asks her father, a lawyer, to marry him and help him pass the Louisiana bar exam, which he passes. Carl follows Frank to his and Brenda’s engagement party, but Frank escapes through a bedroom window, telling Brenda to meet him at Miami International Airport two days later.
At the airport, Frank sees Brenda, but also some undercover agents. He realizes she has abandoned him and drives away. Resuming his pilot identity, he organizes a fake flight attendant recruitment drive at a local college. Surrounded by eight women as flight attendants, he hides from Carl and the other agents at the airport and escapes on a flight to Madrid, Spain.
In 1967, Carl tracks down Frank in his mother’s hometown of Montrichard, France, and tricks him into arrest. He is incarcerated in a French prison in Marseille, where he becomes very ill due to the poor prison conditions. Carl takes Frank on a flight back to the United States. As the flight approaches, Carl informs him of his father’s death. Overcome with grief, Frank escapes from the plane and goes to his mother’s house, where she now has a daughter with Barnes. Frank surrenders to Carl and is sentenced to 12 years in a maximum-security prison.
Carl occasionally visits Frank. During one of these visits, he shows him a fraudulent check from a case he is working on. Frank immediately understands that the bank teller was involved in the fraud. Impressed, Carl convinces the FBI to allow him to serve the remainder of his sentence working for the FBI’s Financial Crimes Unit. Frank agrees, but soon tires of the tedious office job.
One weekend, Frank is about to pose as a pilot again and is intercepted by Carl, who agrees to let him continue his scam, assuring him that no one is after him and that it is his choice. Frank returns to work and discusses another fraud case with Carl, who questions him about how he cheated on the Louisiana bar exam, but Frank reveals that he studied and passed, which makes Carl smile.
A postscript states that Frank lived for 26 years in the Midwestern United States with his wife, with whom he had three sons, that he remained friends with Carl, and that he built a prosperous life as one of the world’s leading experts on bank fraud and forgery.