| Catch Me If You Can | |
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| 2 Nominations | |
| Year | 2002 |
| Director | Steven Spielberg |
| Writer | Jeff Nathanson |
| Starring | Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken |
| 75th Academy Awards | |
Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical crime drama film based on the life of Frank Abagnale, Jr. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, with Christopher Walken, Amy Adams, Martin Sheen, James Brolin, Jennifer Garner, Elizabeth Banks, and Nathalie Baye in supporting roles. Development for the film started in 1980 but did not progress until 1997 when the film rights to Abagnale's book were purchased by Spielberg's DreamWorks.
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New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tracks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to friendship.
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