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For other uses, see Catch Me If You Can (disambiguation). {{Infobox Film| name = Catch Me If You Can| image = Catch Me If You Can 2002 movie.jpg| imdb_id = 0264464| writer = Jeff Nathanson,
Stan Redding,
Frank W. Abagnale
[Tom Hanks
Christopher Walken
Amy Adams (actress)
Martin Sheen| producer = [Steven Spielberg,
Walter F. Parkes| distributor = [DreamWorks SKG [2002| amg_id = 1:249845| budget = $52,000,000-->Catch Me If You Can is a [2002 in film Film set in the 1960s. It was co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and adapted by Jeff Nathanson loosely from the book by Frank Abagnale and Stan Redding. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.

The movie states that it was inspired by the true life story of Abagnale; however the movie diverges somewhat from the real events as #Comparison with the book on his exploits.

The film was a critical and commercial success and is well regarded for John Williams' score and its unique title sequence. The lead actors are Leonardo DiCaprio (as Abagnale) and Tom Hanks (as his FBI pursuer), with a supporting role by Christopher Walken (as Abagnale's father). Williams and Walken were nominated for Academy Awards.

Plot The film begins with an FBI agent, Carl Hanratty Jr. (Tom Hanks), arriving at a French jail in 1969 to meet an imprisoned and sick Frank, who attempts to escape. The scene flashes back six years earlier. Frank's father, Frank Sr. cons a woman to lend him a suit for Frank Jr., who later guises as a driver for Frank Sr. to get a loan from Chase Manhattan Bank. When the loan is denied (due to Internal Revenue Service tax evasions by Frank Sr.), the family is forced to move from their grand home to a small apartment, with tension building between the family; it also appears that his mother is having an adulterous affair with the bank agent as well. Frank Jr., feeling he will not fit in at his new school, poses as a substitute teacher in a French class for a short time. Eventually, tension builds between Frank’s mother and father, who eventually file for divorce. Frank runs away from home, using checks that his father gave him. When Frank runs out of money, he begins to use con tricks. Eventually, Frank’s cons bring him more success as he impersonates an airline pilot. He ends up forging Pan Am payroll checks and after a small amount of time ends up stealing over 2.8 million dollars.Meanwhile Carl Hanratty, a humorless FBI bank fraud agent, begins to track down Frank with little help from his superiors, as most of them do not look at bank fraud seriously. While investigating a hotel, Carl discovers that Frank is in the hotel and runs into his room to arrest him. Not knowing who Carl is, Frank says his name is Barry Allen and that he is from the Secret Service, saying that he has just caught the perpetrator. It is not until after Frank has left that Carl realizes he has been fooled. Later, at Christmas, Carl is still working when Frank calls him, attempting to apologize for duping Carl. Carl rejects his apology and laughs when he realizes that Frank actually called him because he has no one else to talk to. Frank hangs up, and Carl continues to investigate, suddenly realizing that the name “Flash (Barry Allen)” is from The Flash comic books and that Frank is actually a minor.

Frank, meanwhile, has not only changed to becoming a doctor and being a lawyer (inspiring Carl to continuously ask Frank how he cheated on the Bar Exam), but has fallen in love with a nurse, Brenda (Amy Adams (actress)), a Southern Belle who works with him in the hospital. It is to Brenda that he eventually admits the truth about himself and asks her to run away with him. However, he later realizes that she has turned him in and escapes on a flight to Europe. Six months later, Carl shows his boss that Frank has been forging checks all over the hemisphere and that he’s out of control, and wants permission to go to Europe to look for him. When his boss denies him permission, Carl brings Frank’s checks to professionals who deem that the check was printed in France. Remembering from an interview with Paula, Frank’s mother, that she was born in Montrichard, France, Carl goes there where he finds Frank, and tells him that the French police will kill him if he doesn’t go with Carl quietly. Frank assumes he is joking at first, but Carl promises Frank he would never lie to him, and Carl takes him outside, where the French police escort him to prison.

The scene then flashes forward to a plane returning Frank home from prison, where Carl informs him that his father has died. Consumed with grief, Frank escapes from his plane and goes back to his old house, where he finds his mother with the man she left his father for, as well as a girl that Frank realizes is his sister. Frank gives up and is sentenced to prison, getting visits from time to time by Carl. During one such visit, Frank easily deduces the identity of a forger by glancing at some checks Carl is carrying as evidence. Impressed, Carl then arranges for Frank to be allowed to serve out the remainder of his sentence working for the check fraud department of the FBI under Carl's custody, to which Frank accepts. Though enjoying his semi-freedom and professional job, Frank misses the thrill of the chase and even attempts to fly as an airline pilot again. He is cornered by Carl, who insists that Frank will return at the end of the weekend, since there is no one chasing him.

On Monday, Carl is nervous that Frank has not appeared to work yet and is almost regretful at assuming too much about Frank. However, Frank soon shows up and Carl informs him about their next case. During the examination, Carl asks Frank how he cheated on the Bar Exam, to which Frank replies that he didn’t – he had studied for only two weeks and actually passed the exam. Astounded, Carl asks him "Is that the truth, Frank?" to which Frank merely smiles. Carl smiles back and the two continue to investigate their next case.

Music Awards The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for Academy Award for Original Music Score (John Williams (composer)) and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken).

Cast

Trivia .



Box office reception BoxOfficeMojo.com:Film's reported budget: $52 millionEst. Marketing Costs: $35 millionDomestic Gross: $164 millionWorldwide Gross: $351,112,395

Critical reception Catch me if you can was received very well by film critics,scoring a 96% "certified fresh" on movie-critic site rotten tomatoes based on 186 reviews.Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stating that "although it isn't Spielberg's best, it is without a doubt an enjoyable film to watch."

Comparison with the book Compared to the actual events described in Abagnale's book Catch Me If You Can, the film can be described as loosely based on true events. The book itself is also loosely based on the true events for dramatic effect. Abagnale himself has appraised the film as about 80% accurate while noting (as Spielberg advised him) that it would be impossible to put five years of one's life on screen without compressing or altering the details. Consequently, many exploits from the book are omitted, merged together, or shifted chronologically.

Abagnale has said that the movie's portrayal of his father, Frank Sr., is quite different from the actual man, who Abagnale describes as "honest as the day is long," a hard worker, and not at all ego-driven.

In the movie, Abagnale voluntarily leaves the hospital where he has been posing as a doctor. In real life, he was scared into leaving after almost letting a baby die of oxygen deprivation (Abagnale had no idea what the nurse meant when she said there was a "Blue baby syndrome").

In the book, Abagnale, posing as a doctor, has a romantic liaison with a nurse considerably older than he is. In the movie, the girl he seduces is young, perhaps a candy striper rather than a nurse. In the movie, he confesses all to the young candy striper/nurse and asks her to run away with him, only to find at the rendezvous point that she has alerted the FBI. In the book, it is a stewardess girlfriend who calls the police and nearly gets him arrested after his confession.

One of his exploits covered in the movie, forging checks in France, shows Abagnale running the checks off himself. Actually, he had the father of one of his girlfriends print the checks. The father, who owned a print shop, had no idea that he was printing unauthorized documents; Abagnale had given him a sample (real) Pan Am paycheck requested a "sample run." The 10,000 checks he provided were far more than even the profligate paperhanger Abagnale needed.

The movie also dramatizes the capture of Abagnale in his mother's hometown Montrichard, France (outside the aforementioned print shop), with dozens of police and patrol cars appearing. Abagnale in real life was captured in a grocery store in Montpellier by two armed and uniformed police officers, tipped off by a Pan Am stewardess who had recognized Abagnale.

The beginning of the film portrays Frank at the end of his 6 month sentence he served under draconian conditions in France with unruly long hair and extremely poor health and from there is extradited directly back to the States. In actuality, he was then deported to Sweden to serve six months in much more humane conditions and narrowly avoided being sent to Italy to face imprisonment in conditions much similar to what he experienced in France before being released to the United States.

On the flight back, Tom Hanks' character, Carl Hanratty, reveals to Frank that his father has been dead for nearly two years, precipitating Frank's escape from the plane. In reality Frank's father was still alive, but died shortly before his release, and Frank was not allowed to attend the funeral as he was considered an escape risk.

The film shows Frank fleeing the airport to his mother's house, only to learn that she has remarried and has a little daughter. In real life, his sister was two years younger than he was, and was also the daughter of Frank Sr. The real Abagnale, after escaping from the plane, made it all the way to Montreal and was attempting to board a flight to South America when he was apprehended.

In the movie, Abagnale becomes bored with his 9-to-5 job after his release from prison and goes off on another exploit. There is no evidence of it in the book (the book ends as Abagnale evades capture by the FBI after being deported from Sweden back to the United States). Abagnale did, however, escape both from the airplane that returned him to the United States and from the first jail he was held in there.

The relationship between Abagnale and the FBI agent, expanded as a plot device in the movie, is never explored in the book. The book does discuss the main agent responsible for his case—Sean O'Reilly in the book, Carl Hanratty in the movie, and Joe Shea in real life—but there was no contact between the two prior to Abagnale's return to the United States. In particular, the film's portrayal of the annual Christmas phone calls between the two never occurred.

Whereas the movie evades or soft-pedals the sexual aspects of Abagnale's motivation (even offering several more complex or Oedipal reasons), Abagnale happily confesses in the book that most of his early cons were fueled by his libidinous desire to be with (and bed) women. The numerous liaisons mentioned (though not graphically) are mostly downplayed in the movie. Whereas Abagnale comes of age sexually at 15 in the book, the movie suggests he was inexperienced with women until he posed as a pilot for Pan-Am.

Further reading

External links

References

For other uses, see Catch Me If You Can (disambiguation). {{Infobox Film| name = Catch Me If You Can| image = Catch Me If You Can 2002 movie.jpg| imdb_id = 0264464| writer = Jeff Nathanson,
Stan Redding,
Frank W. Abagnale
[Tom Hanks
Christopher Walken
Amy Adams (actress)
Martin Sheen| producer = [Steven Spielberg,
Walter F. Parkes| distributor = [DreamWorks SKG [2002| amg_id = 1:249845| budget = $52,000,000-->Catch Me If You Can is a [2002 in film Film set in the 1960s. It was co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and adapted by Jeff Nathanson loosely from the book by Frank Abagnale and Stan Redding. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.

The movie states that it was inspired by the true life story of Abagnale; however the movie diverges somewhat from the real events as #Comparison with the book on his exploits.

The film was a critical and commercial success and is well regarded for John Williams' score and its unique title sequence. The lead actors are Leonardo DiCaprio (as Abagnale) and Tom Hanks (as his FBI pursuer), with a supporting role by Christopher Walken (as Abagnale's father). Williams and Walken were nominated for Academy Awards.

Plot The film begins with an FBI agent, Carl Hanratty Jr. (Tom Hanks), arriving at a French jail in 1969 to meet an imprisoned and sick Frank, who attempts to escape. The scene flashes back six years earlier. Frank's father, Frank Sr. cons a woman to lend him a suit for Frank Jr., who later guises as a driver for Frank Sr. to get a loan from Chase Manhattan Bank. When the loan is denied (due to Internal Revenue Service tax evasions by Frank Sr.), the family is forced to move from their grand home to a small apartment, with tension building between the family; it also appears that his mother is having an adulterous affair with the bank agent as well. Frank Jr., feeling he will not fit in at his new school, poses as a substitute teacher in a French class for a short time. Eventually, tension builds between Frank’s mother and father, who eventually file for divorce. Frank runs away from home, using checks that his father gave him. When Frank runs out of money, he begins to use con tricks. Eventually, Frank’s cons bring him more success as he impersonates an airline pilot. He ends up forging Pan Am payroll checks and after a small amount of time ends up stealing over 2.8 million dollars.Meanwhile Carl Hanratty, a humorless FBI bank fraud agent, begins to track down Frank with little help from his superiors, as most of them do not look at bank fraud seriously. While investigating a hotel, Carl discovers that Frank is in the hotel and runs into his room to arrest him. Not knowing who Carl is, Frank says his name is Barry Allen and that he is from the Secret Service, saying that he has just caught the perpetrator. It is not until after Frank has left that Carl realizes he has been fooled. Later, at Christmas, Carl is still working when Frank calls him, attempting to apologize for duping Carl. Carl rejects his apology and laughs when he realizes that Frank actually called him because he has no one else to talk to. Frank hangs up, and Carl continues to investigate, suddenly realizing that the name “Flash (Barry Allen)” is from The Flash comic books and that Frank is actually a minor.

Frank, meanwhile, has not only changed to becoming a doctor and being a lawyer (inspiring Carl to continuously ask Frank how he cheated on the Bar Exam), but has fallen in love with a nurse, Brenda (Amy Adams (actress)), a Southern Belle who works with him in the hospital. It is to Brenda that he eventually admits the truth about himself and asks her to run away with him. However, he later realizes that she has turned him in and escapes on a flight to Europe. Six months later, Carl shows his boss that Frank has been forging checks all over the hemisphere and that he’s out of control, and wants permission to go to Europe to look for him. When his boss denies him permission, Carl brings Frank’s checks to professionals who deem that the check was printed in France. Remembering from an interview with Paula, Frank’s mother, that she was born in Montrichard, France, Carl goes there where he finds Frank, and tells him that the French police will kill him if he doesn’t go with Carl quietly. Frank assumes he is joking at first, but Carl promises Frank he would never lie to him, and Carl takes him outside, where the French police escort him to prison.

The scene then flashes forward to a plane returning Frank home from prison, where Carl informs him that his father has died. Consumed with grief, Frank escapes from his plane and goes back to his old house, where he finds his mother with the man she left his father for, as well as a girl that Frank realizes is his sister. Frank gives up and is sentenced to prison, getting visits from time to time by Carl. During one such visit, Frank easily deduces the identity of a forger by glancing at some checks Carl is carrying as evidence. Impressed, Carl then arranges for Frank to be allowed to serve out the remainder of his sentence working for the check fraud department of the FBI under Carl's custody, to which Frank accepts. Though enjoying his semi-freedom and professional job, Frank misses the thrill of the chase and even attempts to fly as an airline pilot again. He is cornered by Carl, who insists that Frank will return at the end of the weekend, since there is no one chasing him.

On Monday, Carl is nervous that Frank has not appeared to work yet and is almost regretful at assuming too much about Frank. However, Frank soon shows up and Carl informs him about their next case. During the examination, Carl asks Frank how he cheated on the Bar Exam, to which Frank replies that he didn’t – he had studied for only two weeks and actually passed the exam. Astounded, Carl asks him "Is that the truth, Frank?" to which Frank merely smiles. Carl smiles back and the two continue to investigate their next case.

Music Awards The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for Academy Award for Original Music Score (John Williams (composer)) and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken).

Cast

Trivia .



Box office reception BoxOfficeMojo.com:Film's reported budget: $52 millionEst. Marketing Costs: $35 millionDomestic Gross: $164 millionWorldwide Gross: $351,112,395

Critical reception Catch me if you can was received very well by film critics,scoring a 96% "certified fresh" on movie-critic site rotten tomatoes based on 186 reviews.Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stating that "although it isn't Spielberg's best, it is without a doubt an enjoyable film to watch."

Comparison with the book Compared to the actual events described in Abagnale's book Catch Me If You Can, the film can be described as loosely based on true events. The book itself is also loosely based on the true events for dramatic effect. Abagnale himself has appraised the film as about 80% accurate while noting (as Spielberg advised him) that it would be impossible to put five years of one's life on screen without compressing or altering the details. Consequently, many exploits from the book are omitted, merged together, or shifted chronologically.

Abagnale has said that the movie's portrayal of his father, Frank Sr., is quite different from the actual man, who Abagnale describes as "honest as the day is long," a hard worker, and not at all ego-driven.

In the movie, Abagnale voluntarily leaves the hospital where he has been posing as a doctor. In real life, he was scared into leaving after almost letting a baby die of oxygen deprivation (Abagnale had no idea what the nurse meant when she said there was a "Blue baby syndrome").

In the book, Abagnale, posing as a doctor, has a romantic liaison with a nurse considerably older than he is. In the movie, the girl he seduces is young, perhaps a candy striper rather than a nurse. In the movie, he confesses all to the young candy striper/nurse and asks her to run away with him, only to find at the rendezvous point that she has alerted the FBI. In the book, it is a stewardess girlfriend who calls the police and nearly gets him arrested after his confession.

One of his exploits covered in the movie, forging checks in France, shows Abagnale running the checks off himself. Actually, he had the father of one of his girlfriends print the checks. The father, who owned a print shop, had no idea that he was printing unauthorized documents; Abagnale had given him a sample (real) Pan Am paycheck requested a "sample run." The 10,000 checks he provided were far more than even the profligate paperhanger Abagnale needed.

The movie also dramatizes the capture of Abagnale in his mother's hometown Montrichard, France (outside the aforementioned print shop), with dozens of police and patrol cars appearing. Abagnale in real life was captured in a grocery store in Montpellier by two armed and uniformed police officers, tipped off by a Pan Am stewardess who had recognized Abagnale.

The beginning of the film portrays Frank at the end of his 6 month sentence he served under draconian conditions in France with unruly long hair and extremely poor health and from there is extradited directly back to the States. In actuality, he was then deported to Sweden to serve six months in much more humane conditions and narrowly avoided being sent to Italy to face imprisonment in conditions much similar to what he experienced in France before being released to the United States.

On the flight back, Tom Hanks' character, Carl Hanratty, reveals to Frank that his father has been dead for nearly two years, precipitating Frank's escape from the plane. In reality Frank's father was still alive, but died shortly before his release, and Frank was not allowed to attend the funeral as he was considered an escape risk.

The film shows Frank fleeing the airport to his mother's house, only to learn that she has remarried and has a little daughter. In real life, his sister was two years younger than he was, and was also the daughter of Frank Sr. The real Abagnale, after escaping from the plane, made it all the way to Montreal and was attempting to board a flight to South America when he was apprehended.

In the movie, Abagnale becomes bored with his 9-to-5 job after his release from prison and goes off on another exploit. There is no evidence of it in the book (the book ends as Abagnale evades capture by the FBI after being deported from Sweden back to the United States). Abagnale did, however, escape both from the airplane that returned him to the United States and from the first jail he was held in there.

The relationship between Abagnale and the FBI agent, expanded as a plot device in the movie, is never explored in the book. The book does discuss the main agent responsible for his case—Sean O'Reilly in the book, Carl Hanratty in the movie, and Joe Shea in real life—but there was no contact between the two prior to Abagnale's return to the United States. In particular, the film's portrayal of the annual Christmas phone calls between the two never occurred.

Whereas the movie evades or soft-pedals the sexual aspects of Abagnale's motivation (even offering several more complex or Oedipal reasons), Abagnale happily confesses in the book that most of his early cons were fueled by his libidinous desire to be with (and bed) women. The numerous liaisons mentioned (though not graphically) are mostly downplayed in the movie. Whereas Abagnale comes of age sexually at 15 in the book, the movie suggests he was inexperienced with women until he posed as a pilot for Pan-Am.

Further reading

External links

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