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Catch Me If You Can on DVD (2002)

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Average rating: (72%)
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3.5
 
Starring: Tom Hanks | Leonardo DiCaprio | Christopher Walken | Martin Sheen | Nathalie Baye | Amy Adams | James Brolin | Jennifer Garner
Director: Steven Spielberg
Studio: DREAMWORKS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 135 mins
Certificate: 12
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Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Dubbed: French, German
Hearing-impaired: English
Subtitles: English, French, German, Bulgarian, Arabic
Released: 30/06/2003

Brief synopsis of Catch Me If You Can

Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Frank W. Abagnale's autobiography CATCH ME IF YOU CAN follows the cat-and-mouse chase of Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) and FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) as Abagnale travels the world passing forged checks and assuming false identities. Covering the time period from 1963-69, the film leaps from the suburbs of New York to Georgia, Louisiana, Miami, France, and the skies of Pan American airlines with Abagnale, who passes himself off as a pilot, doctor, lawyer, and socialite while constantly frustrating Hanratty's attempts to nab the increasingly cunning forger. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN finds Spielberg drawing on the father-son relationship that develops between Abagnale and Hanratty, filling a void left in the lives of each man: Abagnale's strained relationship with his tax-cheat father (Christopher Walken) and Hanratty's never-seen family left behind in the wake of a divorce. As Hanratty pursues Abagnale, their mutual admiration and respect grows, and finally they even come to rely on each other.

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Rating of 4 stars out of 5 Radio Times

After the futuristic drama of AI: Artificial Intelligence and Minority Report, director Steven Spielberg backtracks to the 1960s for this stylish slice of effortless entertainment. Leonardo DiCaprio exudes movie-star charisma as Frank Abagnale Jr who, while still a teenager, charmed and cheated his way across America, posing as an airline pilot, doctor and lawyer in order to cash forged cheques. Tom Hanks turns in a generous, unshowy supporting performance as Carl Hanratty, the dogged FBI agent who obsessively pursued the larcenous young man. Sentimentality is allowed to intrude with the depiction of Abagnale's family life, but not into Christopher Walken's superb turn as the conman's father. Despite these momentary dips in the bright and breezy feel of the piece, the deft blend of comedy and suspense, great period detail and sheer directorial class ensure that this is one of Spielberg's most purely enjoyable movies.

Rating of 2 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

Based on a true story, an entertaining comedy about as teenager trying on different identities to see which one fits; at half-an-hour shorter, it would have been a better movie, but it will still leave you smiling.

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Rated - 5 starsPure unadulterated fun

A customer from London , 09/09/2003

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 motives. Great, great fun.

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Rated - 4 starsSwitch your brain off and enjoy the ride

Michelle from Shepperton , 11/12/2003

Ignore anyone who tells you that there is no way certain 'facts' in the film can be done, just switch your brain off and enjoy the ride. As a responsible parent and citizen I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to want law breaking Leo's anti-hero to keep conning his way out of the way of Hanks' FBI character but both characters are written and played so well that you just love them both and want both of them to win. The leads get to evolve over the course of the film and at the end you'll hopefully be left with a smile on your face at the whole concept of the movie that you've just witnessed. Spielberg - yet again you pull a wonderful bunny rabbit out of the hat.

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Rated - 3 starsCatch it if you can

Lighthouse from BRIGHTON , 23/10/2003

Christopher Walken makes this film, playing Leo Di Caprio's dad. His head-in-the-clouds attitude and con man antics explain why Leo Di Caprio becomes the person he does. You will be cheering everytime Leo manages to con his way into a new profession. Although the film is half an hour too long, this is well worth seeing. Truth is always stranger than fiction.

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Rated - 4 starsThis film deserves four stars...

trotsuk from LONDON , 11/01/2005

...just for the opening credits. Genius.

The rest of the film is not bad either.

  9 out of 12 people found this review helpful
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