Re-assuming his pilot identity, he stages a false recruiting drive for stewardesses at a local college. He realizes she has given him up, then drives away. Carl tracks 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.Īt the airport, Frank spots Brenda, but also plainclothes agents. He asks her attorney father for her hand in marriage and also for help with arranging to take the Louisiana State Bar exam, which Frank passes. Frank Conners, he falls in love with Brenda, a naive young hospital nurse. He escapes before Carl realizes that he was fooled.įrank begins to impersonate a doctor. Carl finds him at a hotel, but Frank tricks Carl into believing he is a Secret Service agent named Barry Allen. News of the crimes reaches the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Agent Carl Hanratty begins tracking Frank. Soon, his forgeries are worth millions of dollars. He impersonates a Pan Am pilot named Frank Taylor and forges the airline's payroll checks. Needing money, he turns to confidence scams to survive and his cons grow bolder. When his parents divorce, Frank runs away. One day, Frank discovers that his mother is having an affair with Jack Barnes, his father's friend from the Rotary Club of New Rochelle. Because of Frank Sr.'s tax problems with the IRS, the family is forced to move to a small apartment. During his youth, he witnesses his father's many techniques for conning people. lives in New Rochelle, New York with his father Frank Abagnale Sr.
At the 75th Academy Awards, Christopher Walken and John Williams were nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Score, respectively. The film opened on December 25, 2002, to critical and commercial success. Filming took place from February to May 2002. 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. Ī movie version of Abagnale's book of the same name was contemplated soon after it was published in 1980 but began in earnest in 1997 when Spielberg's DreamWorks bought the film rights. The screenplay by Jeff Nathanson is based on the semi-autobiographical book of the same name by Frank Abagnale Jr., who claims that before his 19th birthday, he successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor. Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical crime 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.
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