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Genres:
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Biography /
Comedy /
Crime /
Drama
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Release:
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Director:
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Steven Spielberg
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Actors:
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James Brolin,
Chris Ellis,
Frank John Hughes,
Nancy Lenehan,
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Tom Hanks,
Christopher Walken,
Martin Sheen,
Nathalie Baye,
Amy Adams,
Brian Howe,
Steve Eastin,
John Finn,
Jennifer Garner,
Ellen Pompeo
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Duration:
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135 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)128
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Plot Summary:
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Budding Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents removed, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Lately a two years later, the FBI tracks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in disagreeable checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pot Am fly, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from not quite the beginning of this liveliness of offence, he's been pursued by a strict FBI age... nt, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to invent and son.
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Catch Me If You Can
Leonardo DiCaprio effortlessly charms his way through Steven Spielberg's zippy, lightweight chase thriller, the real life tale of con man extraordinaire Frank Abagnale Jr
It's fortunate that Catch Me If You Can is based on a true story, for otherwise film-goers, on exiting cinemas, would be outraged with incredulity at the whole affair. A smart-ass 19-year-old passing himself off as a pilot, a lawyer and a doctor while amassing over $2 million through forged cheques? Yeah, right.
But this is all a relatively faithful adaptation of the autobiography of one Frank Abagnale Jr (co-written with Stan Redding), who did indeed pull off all of the above - and much more besides - before the age of 21. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the con man in question. Early scene...
Pure unadulterated fun
I was having so much fun being sucked into the make believe world of Frank Abagnale (Leonardo diCaprio) that when the end of the film came I was totally gutted, wanting more and more. This tale, based on events chronicled in Abagnale's autobiography, shows young Frank blagging and hoodwinking his way to a fortune. The kind of people who succumbed to having the wool pulled over their eyes were airlines for whom he co-piloted, hosptitals and hookers. As he delves into greater and greater acts of fraud, he becomes a key FBI target and its the job of Tom Hanks character to reel him in. Unfortunately he is the prime 'hoodwinkee'. More than just a cartoon style cat and mouse caper, it has emotional depth thanks to the excellent father-son undercurrent which sheds light on Franks moti...
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