Catch Me If You Can

Theatrical Release Date: 2002 12 25 (USA)

UPC: 678149033229

Studio: DreamWorks

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Watch With Your Teen]

Summary: A gifted forger and confidence man attempts to stay one step ahead of the lawman determined to bring him to justice in this comedy-drama from Steven Spielberg, based on a true story. Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a 16-year-old high school student who finds himself emotionally cut adrift when his mother, Paula (Nathalie Baye), leaves his father, Frank Abagnale Sr. (Christopher Walken), after Frank Sr. falls into arrears with the Internal Revenue Service. One day at school, Frank Jr. attempts to pass himself off as a substitute teacher, and easily makes the subterfuge work. His small-scale success gives Frank some ideas, and he soon discovers bigger and more profitable ways of hoaxing others, passing himself off as an airline pilot, a doctor, and an attorney. Along the way, Frank learns how to become a master forger, and uses his talent and charm to pass over 2.5 million dollars in phony checks. Frank's increasingly audacious work soon attracts the attention of Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), an FBI agent who is determined to put Frank behind bars. Frank seems to enjoy being pursued by Carl, and even goes so far as to call Carl on the phone to chat every once in a while. While posing as a doctor, Frank falls in love with Brenda Strong (Amy Adams), a sweet girl working as a candy striper. When Frank asks Brenda to marry him, he decides to assume a new identity to impress her father, Roger (Martin Sheen) -- who happens to be the District Attorney of New Orleans, LA. Catch Me If You Can was based on the autobiography of the real Frank W. Abagnale Jr., who has a cameo in the film and today works on the side of the law as a top consultant on preventing forgery and designing secure checking systems. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Crime

Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Runner-up) – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Picture – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Director – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Composer – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – National Society of Film Critics Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Screen Actors Guild Best Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Director – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Score – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor – Screen Actors Guild Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actor – National Society of Film Critics

Features: "Catch Me if You Can: Behind the Camera" making-of documentary
"Cast Me if You Can" featurette
"Frank Abagnale: Between Reality and Fiction" featurette
The FBI Perspective
Score featurette
Photo galleries
Filmographies
Production notes

Catch Me If You Can

Format: DVD

Release Date: 05/06/2003

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS2.0 Dolby Digital w/ 4 channels, DTS Digital Theater Systems

Runtime: 141 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 -- Feature
1. My Name Is Frank Abagnale, Jr.
2. Carl Hanratty
3. Lifestyle Changes
4. The Substitute
5. Running Away
6. Becoming a Pilot
7. Getting It All Back
8. Dead Head
9. Check Cashing
10. Barry Allen, Secret Service
11. The James Bond of the Sky
12. He's a Kid
13. Dr. Frank Conners
14. Becoming a Lawyer
15. Calling a Truce
16. What's in a Name
17. New Recruiting Program
18. Out of Control
19. Family News
20. Financial Crime Unit
21. Late for Work
22. End Credits

Tracie Cooper

Leaving behind the darker implications found in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and Minority Report, Steven Spielberg brings audiences a highly enjoyable cat-and-mouse escapade in Catch Me if You Can. Despite purposely fudging some fairly major aspects of Frank Abagnale Jr.'s personal history for dramatic effect -- the character of Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), for example, is completely fictitious -- the film is nonetheless an engaging and relatively accurate account of Abagnale's life. Somewhat overshadowed by Daniel Day-Lewis and Liam Neeson in Gangs of New York, Leonardo DiCaprio's talents have not been showcased this well since his Academy Award nominated performance in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. DiCaprio's boyish features and bright charisma make for a sympathetic portrayal of the young con artist, and Frank's actions seem less motivated by greed than they are by the desire to restore his family to what it once was, as well as, ironically, a way to discover his true identity. Tom Hanks puts in an equally strong performance as droll FBI agent Hanratty, whose determination to apprehend Frank is more of an exercise in his own ideals and even paternal concern than an ego-motivated manhunt. The film's only major faults are the palpable slow down in its later half, and a conclusion that, like A.I. and Minority Report, does not seem to end where it should. Regardless, Catch Me if You Can is a beautifully shot, thoroughly enjoyable movie with a whole lot of heart. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Dave Hager  Actor 
Robert Symonds  Actor 
Gerald R. Molen  Actor 
James Morrison  Actor 
Phil Reeves  Actor 
Margaret Travolta  Actor 
Kyle Davis  Actor 
Jack Knight  Actor 
Jonathan Brent  Actor 
Jonathan Danker  Actor 
Eugene Fleming  Actor 
Deborah Kellner  Actor 
Kelly McNair  Actor 
Julien Normandeau  Actor 
Paul Todd  Actor 
Lilyan Chauvin  Actor 
Thomas Kopache  Actor 
Malachi Throne  Actor 
Kitty Carlisle Hart  Actor 
James DuMont  Actor 
Robert Peters  Actor 
Ellen Pompeo  Actor 
Mike Baldridge  Actor 
Antoine Drolet-Dumoulin  Actor 
Vincent Généreux  Actor 
Donna Kimball  Actor 
Andrew Meeks  Actor 
Alexandre Pepin  Actor 
Francis Campeau  Actor 
Anthony Powers  Actor 
Steve Witting  Actor 
Matthew Kimbrough  Actor 
Stephen Dunham  Actor 
Jane Edith Wilson  Actor 
Alexandre Bisping  Actor 
Stan Bly  Actor 
Ashley Cohen  Actor 
Patrice Dussault  Actor 
Simon Houle-Gauthier  Actor 
William Lauzon  Actor 
Maggie Mellin  Actor 
Jonathan René  Actor 
Jim Antonio  Actor 
Robert Ruth  Actor 
Jan Munroe  Actor 
Kam Heskin  Actor 
Brian Goodman  Actor 
Amy Acker  Actor 
Brandon Keener  Actor 
Dominic Bond  Actor 
Mercedes Cornett  Actor 
Shane Edelman  Actor 
Sébastien Jean  Actor 
Jennifer Manley  Actor 
Benita Krista Nall  Actor 
Samuel St. Amour  Actor 
Frank Abagnale Jr.  Actor 
Sarah Rush  Actor 
Wendy Worthington  Actor 
Ritchie Montgomery  Actor 
Elizabeth Banks  Actor 
J. Patrick McCormack  Actor 
Ray Proscia  Actor 
Patrick Thomas O'Brien  Actor 
Joshua Boyd  Actor 
Marc-Antoine Côté  Actor 
Joel Ewing  Actor 
Jennifer Kan  Actor 
Jill Matson  Actor 
Jaime Ray Newman  Actor 
Jamie Anderson  Actor 
Alex Hyde-White  Actor 
Guy Thauvette  Actor 
Fred Datig Jr.  Actor 
Roger Leger  Actor 
Lauren Cohn  Actor 
Candice Azzara  Actor 
Joe Garagiola  Actor 
Jimmie F. Skaggs  Actor 
Sarah Lancaster  Actor 
Jean-François Blanchard  Actor 
Raphaël Cardin  Actor 
Celine Du Tertre  Actor 
Ellis Hall  Actor 
Pascal Larouche  Actor 
Steven Meizler  Actor 
Nicolas Radeschi  Actor 
Ana Maria Quintana  Actor 
Jessica Collins  Actor 
Morgan Rusler  Actor 
Jasmine Jessica Anthony  Actor 
Jean-François Brousseau  Actor 
Kaitlin Doubleday  Actor 
Mathieu Gaudreault  Actor 
Max J. Kerstein  Actor 
Jason McNally  Actor 
David Parent-Laliberté  Actor 
Alfred Dennis  Actor 
Nancy Lenehan  Actor 
Robert Curtis-Brown  Actor 
Guy-Daniel Tremblay  Actor 
Jack Wagner  Actor 
Thomas Crawford  Actor 
Jeremy Howard  Actor 
Jane Bodle  Actor 
Kelly Cohen  Actor 
Léon Dussault-Gagné  Actor 
Kelly Hutchinson  Actor 
Florent Legault  Actor 
Jamie Moss  Actor 
Angela Sorensen  Actor 
Walter Parkes  Producer 
Tony Romano  Executive Producer 
Steven Spielberg  Director 
Steven Spielberg  Producer 
John Williams  Composer (Music Score) 
Daniel Lupi  Executive Producer 
Barry Kemp  Executive Producer 
Laurie MacDonald  Executive Producer 
Jeff Nathanson  Screenwriter 
Michel Shane  Executive Producer 
Leonardo DiCaprio  Actor 
Tom Hanks  Actor 
Christopher Walken  Actor 
Martin Sheen  Actor 
Nathalie Baye  Actor 
Amy Adams  Actor 
James Brolin  Actor 
Brian Howe  Actor 
Frank John Hughes  Actor 
Steve Eastin  Actor 
Chris Ellis  Actor 
John Finn  Actor 
Jennifer Garner  Actor 

Country: USA