- Cast – Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken
- Director – Steven Spielberg
- Writers – Frank Abagnale Jr., Stan Redding, Jeff Nathanson
- Budget – $52 million
- Hit/Flop – Hit
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is a rare comedy from director Steven Spielberg based on the autobiography of con man Frank Abagnale, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio). Frank left his broken home at 16 and in the 1960s successfully passed himself off as an airline co-pilot, doctor and lawyer. He cashed over $4 million in fraudulent checks. Spielberg works this material as a cops and robbers game between the brilliant and charming Abagnale and Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), the straight-arrow F.B.I. forgery nerd and pursuer who is often embarrassed but never gives up the chase.
“The more I got away with, the more of a game it became a game I knew I would ultimately lose,” explains the real Frank Abagnale. Most of the fun is in the outrageousness of Frank’s capers. As a new student in high school, he pretends to be a substitute French teacher for a week. (His mother is French.) As a pilot, he gets free rides and 300 paychecks, but never flies a plane. As a doctor, he supervises, lets his staff do the work and leaves when it gets queasy. And he actually becomes a lawyer.
Frank inherits his risk-taking and people skills from his beloved but erratic father (played with charisma and nuance by Christopher Walken). The movie’s moral problems are probably less in the crime-sympathy area than in Frank’s manipulation of women. It’s amusing for a while but he pays the price.
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