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Catch Me If You Can, 2002

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Written by: Jeff Nathanson

Language: English, French

Country: USA

Runtime: 141 min

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Rating:7.8

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The mood of Catch Me If You Can is clever, sentimental, and captivating. The plot centers around forgery, a manhunt, and unlikely criminals. It is a drama, crime, and adventure movie. Stylistically, Catch Me If You Can has a Hollywood tone and includes a voice over. In approach, it is realistic. The setting is the USA. Catch Me If You Can happens in the 1960s. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. The movie is known for being a blockbuster, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. Catch Me If You Can is especially suggested for teens and a date night.

Summary of Catch Me If You Can

Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Frank W. Abagnale's autobiography Catch Me If You Can follows the cat-and-mouse chase of Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) and FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) as Abagnale travels the world passing forged checks and assuming false identities. Covering the time period from 1963-69, the film leaps from the suburbs of New York to Georgia, Louisiana, Miami, France and the skies of Pan American airlines with Abagnale, who passes himself off as a pilot, doctor, lawyer and socialite, while constantly frustrating Hanratty's attempts to nab the increasingly cunning forger.

Catch Me If You Can finds Spielberg drawing on the father-son relationship that develops between Abagnale and Hanratty, filling a void left in the lives of each man: Abagnale's strained relationship with his tax-cheat father (Christopher Walken) and Hanratty's never-seen family left behind in the wake of a divorce. As Hanratty pursues Abagnale, their mutual admiration and respect grows, and finally they even come to rely on each other.

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Language:	English, French
Country:	USA
Release date:	16 December 2002
Runtime:	141 min

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Leonardo DiCaprio

as Frank Abagnale Jr.

Tom Hanks

as Carl Hanratty

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Frank Abagnale, Sr. (Christopher Walken) in Catch Me If You Can (2002)

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Paula Abagnale (Nathalie Baye) is Frank's mother in Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) in Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) waits for his laundry in Catch Me If You Can (2002)

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The New York Times

Supremely entertaining. Full Review

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by: Stephen Holden

The Onion (A.V. Club)

Part of Spielberg's skill as a filmmaker comes in choosing the right collaborators. Janusz Kaminski's gorgeous cinematography, Michael Kahn's graceful editing, Jeff Nathanson's clever script, and John Williams' score all work well in unison, but the... Full Review

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by: Nathan Rabin

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If you've read the book, don't watch this movie. This is a great story. As a movie, it should be better. Mr. Spielberg makes this movie about 30 minutes too long. But I found the story so fascinating that after I saw it, I read the book to find out... Read and rate it

11.June.2009
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by: jostrem
jostrem rated this movie6/10Okay

Despite all the positive reviews let me add the first negative. The plot just couldn't get up enough steam to keep me interested. Performances are ok, but nobody is stretching. Lots of money was put into production values, but perhaps should've gone... Read and rate it

22.March.2009
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by: donp17
donp17 rated this movie4/10Disappointing

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