Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can 123movies (2002) online 123 movies: New Rochelle, 1960s. High school student Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who is in trouble with the IRS. When his parents split up, Frank runs off to Manhattan with $25 in a checking account, promising to make amends to his father and reunite his parents. A few years later, the FBI tracked him down in France; Catch Me If You Can 123movies extradite, tried, and jailed him for handing over $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he poses as a Pan Am pilot, paediatrician, and lawyer. Catch Me If You Can 123movies  And almost from the very beginning of his criminal life, he is being hunted by the harsh FBI agent Carl Hanratty. What starts as a cat and a mouse turns into a father and son.

Catch Me If You Can stays a 2002 American crime thriller film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Jeff Nathanson and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen and Natalie Bye. Catch Me If You Can 123movies  The film be located based on the memoirs of Frank Abagnale. He allegedly ran a million-dollar scam by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, Georgia doctor, and Louisiana parish attorney until his 19th birthday. The integrity of his story is doubtful.

Work on the film began in 1980 but dragged on until 1997 when Spielberg’s DreamWorks bought the film rights to Abagnale’s 1980 book of the same name. He directed the film before Spielberg decided to handle it himself. Catch Me If You Can 123movies  David Fincher, Gore Verbinski, Lasse Hallström, Milos Foreman, and Cameron Crowe were all considered. Filming took place since February to May 2002.

About the movie

Directed by         Steven Spielberg

Screenplay by    Jeff Nathanson

Based on             Catch Me If You Can

by Frank Abagnale Jr.

Stan Redding

Produced by

Steven Spielberg

Walter F. Parkes

Starring

Leonardo DiCaprio

Tom Hanks

Christopher Walken

Martin Sheen

Nathalie Baye

Cinematography               Janusz Kamiński

Edited by             Michael Kahn

Music by              John Williams

Production

companies

Amblin Entertainment

DreamWorks Pictures

Parkes/MacDonald Productions

Kemp Company

Splendid Pictures

Distributed by    DreamWorks Pictures

Release dates

December 18, 2002 (Westwood)

December 25, 2002 (United States)

Running time     141 minutes

Country United States

Language            English

Budget  $52 million

Box office           $352.1 million

Catch Me If You Can

On December 25, 2002, the film was released to critical and commercial success. At the 75th Conservatoire Awards, Christopher Walken and John Williams stood nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Score, respectively.

In 1963, teenager Frank William Abagnale Jr. lived in New Rochelle, New York, with his father Frank Abagnale Sr. and French mother Paula. When Frank Sr. runs into tax troubles with the IRS, the family is forced to move out of their big house and into a small apartment. One day, Frank learns that his mother is having an affair with his father’s friend Jack Barnes.

When his parents’ divorce, Frank runs away. Needing money, he turns to reliable scammers to survive, and his scams are getting bolder. He poses as a Pan Am pilot and forges the airline’s paychecks. Soon his forgeries are price millions of dollars. News of the crimes reaches the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Agent Carl Hanratty begins to track Frank down. Carl finds Frank at the hotel, but Frank tricks Carl into thinking he is Barry Allen’s Secret Service agent. He escapes before Carl realizes he has been tricked.

Catch Me If You Can movie

Frank begins to pose as a doctor. Dr Frank Conners falls in love through Brenda, a trusting young hospital worker. Frank asks Brenda’s attorney father for permission to marry her and also wants her to help pass the Louisiana bar exam, which Frank takes. Carl tracks Frank down to Brenda’s engagement, but Frank escapes through the bedroom window. Before running, Frank asks Brenda to meet him at Miami International Airport in two days. At the airport, Open sees Brenda but also sees the plainclothes officers and realizes she ratted him out, then leaves. He then mistook himself for a pilot again and set up a fake flight attendant recruitment campaign at a local college. He hires eight women as flight attendants, hides from Carl and other agents walking through the airport with flight attendants, and escapes on a flight to Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport, Spain.

In 1967, Carl found Frank in his mother’s hometown of Montrichard, France. Frank is in a French prison in Marseille, where he almost died due to poor conditions. Carl takings Frank on a flight back to the United States. As they approach, Carl informs Frank that his father is dead. Heartbroken, Frank escapes the plane and arrives at his mother’s home, who has remarried and has a daughter. Frank turns himself to Carl and spends 12 years in a maximum-security prison.