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Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical crime comedy-drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks with Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Natalie Bay, Amy Adams, and James Brolin. In supporting roles.
The screenplay by Jeff Nathanson is based on the semi-autobiographical book of the same name by Frank Abagnale Jr., who claims that before his 19th birthday, he pulled off multi-million dollar scams by pretending to be a pilot for American World Airlines, a pilot On American Airlines.
Georgia physician and Louisiana diocese attorney. The truth of his story is hotly disputed.
A film version of Abagnale's book of the same name was considered shortly after its publication in 1980, but began in earnest in 1997 when Spielberg's DreamWorks purchased the film rights. David Fincher, Gore Verbinski, Lasse Hallström, Milos Forman, and Cameron Crowe were all chosen to direct the film before Spielberg decided to direct it himself.
Filming took place from February to May 2002.
The film opened on December 25, 2002, to positive reviews and commercial success.
At the 75th Academy Awards, Christopher Walken and John Williams were nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Score, respectively.
In 1969, FBI agent Carl Hanratty arrived in Marseille, France to pick up a prisoner named Frank Abagnale Jr. who had fallen ill due to poor prison conditions.
Six years ago, Frank Abagnale Jr. was living in New Rochelle, New York, with his father, Frank Abagnale Sr., and his French mother, Paula. During his youth, he witnessed his father's many techniques for scamming people, but Frank Sr.'s tax problems with the IRS eventually forced the family to move out of their home and into a small apartment.
One day, Frank discovers that his mother is having an affair with Jack Barnes, a friend of his father's from the Rotary Club of New Rochelle.
When his parents divorce, Frank runs away. In need of money, he resorts to trust scams to survive, and his downsides gradually increase. He impersonates a Pan Am pilot named Frank Taylor and forges the airline's paychecks. Soon his counterfeit value is worth millions of dollars.
News of the crimes reaches the FBI and Agent Carl Hanratty begins tracking Frank.
Carl finds him at a hotel, but Frank tricks Carl into believing he is a Secret Service agent named Barry Allen
. He runs away before Carl realizes he has been tricked.
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Frank then starts impersonating a doctor. As Dr. Frank Conners, he falls in love with Brenda, a naive young hospital nurse, and asks her lawyer father for her hand in marriage as well as help with arrangements to take the Louisiana state bar exam, which Frank passes.
Carl tracks Frank to his and Brenda's engagement party, but Frank escapes through a bedroom window, asking Brenda to meet him at Miami International Airport two days later.
At the airport, Frank spots Brenda, but also plainclothes agents.
He realizes she abandoned him, then walks away. Reassuming his pilot identity, he organizes a phony recruitment drive for flight attendants at a local college
. Surrounded by eight women working as flight attendants, he hides himself from Carl and other agents at the airport and escapes on a flight to Madrid, Spain.
Later, in 1967, Carl tracks down Frank in his mother's hometown of Montrichard, France and convinces him to finally surrender to the French police.
Frank is immediately arrested and detained in France, but Carl assures him that he will be extradited to the United States.
Carl returns again in 1969, and takes Frank on a trip back to the United States.
As they get closer, Carl tells him that his father has died.
Dejected, Frank escapes the plane and arrives at the home of his mother, who now has a daughter with Barnes. Frank surrenders to Carl and is sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security prison.
Carl visits Frank from time to time. On one visit, he showed him a fraudulent check from a case he was working on.
Frank immediately discovered that the bank cashier was involved in the fraud.
Impressed, Carl convinced the FBI to let him serve the remainder of his sentence in the FBI's Financial Crimes Unit. Frank agrees but soon becomes anxious about the boring office work.
One weekend, Frank prepares to impersonate a pilot again and is intercepted by Carl, who is willing to let him continue his ruse, assuring him that no one is after him and that it is his choice.
Frank returns to work and discusses another fraud case with Carl, who asks him how he cheated on the Louisiana state bar exam, but Frank tells him that he studied for it and passed.
Carl smiles and asks Frank if he is telling the truth, but Frank distracts him by giving Carl input into their new fraud case, to which Carl willingly agrees.
The postscript notes that Frank lived for 26 years in the Midwestern United States with his wife, with whom he had three sons, and remains friends with Carl.
Frank Abagnale sold the film rights to his autobiography in 1980
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According to Abagnale, producers Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin bought the rights to the film after seeing it on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Two years later, they sold the rights to Columbia Pictures, which in turn sold the rights to producer Hall Bartlett. Bartlett and business partner Michael J. Lasky hired Steven Kunz to write the screenplay, but Bartlett died before the project could find a distributor.
The rights were then sold to Hollywood Pictures, a division of Disney, and as the project began to turn around, the rights were sold back to Bungalow 78 Productions, a division of TriStar Pictures.
From there, the project was presented to Steven Spielberg at DreamWorks Pictures.[12] According to Daily Variety, executive producer Michel Sheen purchased the rights to the film in 1990 for Paramount Pictures. By December 1997, Barry Kemp had purchased the film rights from Sheen, bringing the project to DreamWorks, with Jeff Nathanson writing the script. By April 2000, David Fincher was attached to direct over the course of a few months, but dropped out in favor of Panic Room.
In July 2000, Leonardo DiCaprio entered discussions to star in the film, with Gore Verbinski directing it. Spielberg signed on as producer, and filming was scheduled to begin in March 2001.
Verbinski stars as James Gandolfini as Carl Hanratty, Ed Harris as Frank Abagnale Sr., and Chloë Sevigny as Brenda Strong. Verbinski dropped out due to DiCaprio's commitment to Gangs of New York.
Lasse Hallström was in negotiations to direct the film by May 2001, but dropped out in July 2001. At this point, Harris and Sevigny had left the film, but Gandolfini was still attached to it. Spielberg, co-founder of DreamWorks, offered the director's job to Miloš Forman, and considered hiring Cameron Crowe
. During this negotiation period, Spielberg began to consider directing the film himself, eventually dropping projects such as Big Fish and Memoirs of a Geisha. Spielberg officially committed to direct in August 2001.[13] That same month, Tom Hanks was chosen to replace Gandolfini, who left due to scheduling conflicts with The Sopranos.
The search for Sevigny's replacement in the role of Brenda Strong continued for several months, but Amy Adams was eventually cast. Spielberg "loved" her tape, and producer Walter F. Parks commented that she was "as fresh and honest as anyone we've ever seen", which was an important element of the role. Christopher Walken was cast as Frank Abagnale Sr. at Parks' suggestion.
Martin Sheen played Roger Strong, who had an "intimidating presence". Spielberg wanted Paula Abagnale to be portrayed by a French actress to remain true to the facts. He sought help from Brian De Palma, who was living in Paris, and conducted tests with several actresses, such as Natalie Baye.
Spielberg had seen Jennifer Garner in Alias and offered her a small role in the film.[26]
Filming was scheduled to begin in January 2002, but was postponed to February 7 in Los Angeles, California. Locations included Burbank, Downey, New York City, Los Angeles/Ontario International Airport (which doubled as Miami International Airport), Quebec City and Montreal.
The film was shot in 147 locations in just 52 days. “Scenes that we thought would take three days took an afternoon,” DiCaprio said. Filming continued from April 25 to 30 on Park Avenue, outside the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
The production moved to Orange, New Jersey and returned to Brooklyn for the bank and court scenes. Shooting also took place at the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Quebec City was chosen for its European character and French feel. Place Royale, inside Old Quebec, symbolizes Montrichard, and the church in the background of the place of internment is the Church of Notre-Dame de Victoire. Filming wrapped on May 12 in Montreal.
Abagnale had little role in the film, but believed that Spielberg was the only director who "could do this film justice", despite various changes from the alleged real-life events.[33] In November 2001, Abagnale said:
I am not a consultant on the film. I have never met or spoken with Steven Spielberg nor read the script.
I'd rather not do that. I understand that they now portray my father in a better light, as he actually was.
Steven Spielberg told the screenwriter (Jeff Nathanson) that he wanted complete accuracy of the actual relationships and frauds committed. In the end, I hope that the film will be entertaining, exciting, funny, and carry an important message about family, childhood, and divorce.[33]
The real Abagnale claims that he never saw his father again after he ran away from home, but Spielberg "wanted to continue that connection where Frank kept trying to please his father; by making him proud of him; by seeing him in uniform, the American uniform."[34]
In a November 2017 "Talks at Google" presentation, Abagnale commented extensively about the accuracy of Spielberg's film:
I've only seen the movie twice. So when the journalist asked me about my opinion of the movie, and what is right and what is wrong, I said: First, I have two brothers and a sister; He portrayed me as an only child. In real life, my mother never remarried; There is a scene in the movie where she gets married again and has a little girl.
This didn't really happen. In real life, I never saw my parents after I ran away; In the movie they kept bringing him back to Christopher Walken in the movie.
This didn't really happen. ...I escaped from the plane through the galley area where they bring food and things onto the plane;
There they made me escape through the toilet. ...I thought he stayed too close to the story, but that's about it.
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He was very concerned with accuracy, first and foremost, because it was the first time he had made a film about an actual living person. Secondly, the Bureau had an information officer on set for all the shooting of the entire movie to make sure that what it said about the FBI... was accurate. ...And of course, as he later said, “I actually got most of my information from those three retired agents.” ...So I thought he did a good job of keeping the film very precise.
Additionally, the real name of the actual FBI agent that Abagnale claims to have tracked down and later worked with is Joseph Shea; Abagnale stated that because Shea did not want his name used in the film, the character was renamed Carl and given the nickname Hanratty, based on a football player of the same name.
Despite his claim that Spielberg "stayed very close to the story," records show that Abagnale was in Great Meadow Penitentiary in Comstock, New York between the ages of 17 and 20 (July 26, 1965 to December 24, 1968, inmate No. 25367). Before that, he was in the US Navy (December 1964 to February 1965).[38] Six weeks after his release from Great Meadow, on February 14, 1969, he was rearrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was imprisoned locally, and in June 1969, he was convicted of stealing from a local family and a small business in Baton Rouge. Abagnale briefly wore the uniform of a Pan American Airlines pilot in the fall of 1970.
He was arrested in Cobb County, Georgia on November 2, 1970. Federal court records associated with his conviction show that he cashed only 10 personal checks counterfeiting the Pan American Airlines logo, for a total of less From 1500 USD.
The facts behind many of Abagnale's exaggerated claims, and their inclusion or omission from the film, have been the subject of renewed media reports in 2021.
His claim that he passed the Louisiana bar exam and worked for Attorney General Jacques P. F. Gremillion was debunked by several journalists in 1978 Journalist Ira Perry was unable to find any evidence that Abagnale worked with the FBI.
According to a retired FBI special agent, Abagnale was caught trying to pass personal checks in 1978 several years after he claimed to have started working for the FBI.
