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Catch Me If You Can (2002)

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The larky "Catch Me if You Can" is like a trot around the track for the thoroughbreds involved, and one of the results is that it [...]

— review by Todd McCarthy at Variety - 13 December 2002

Leaving behind the darker implications found in A.I. [...]

— review by Tracie Cooper at allmovie

By 1967, Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) had become the youngest con man to make the FBI’s “Most Wanted List. [...]

— review by Sean O'Connell at FilmCritic

In this fact based account of con man Frank Abagnale Jr.'s escapades during the 60s, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a teenager who passes [...]

— review by Rick Kisonak at Film Threat - 17 December 2002

The sweet young thing is confused. Her handsome lawyer fiance is silhouetted in the bedroom window, [...]

— review by Ty Burr, Globe Staff at The Boston Globe - 25 December 2002

The trailer for "Catch Me If You Can" is so obvious it could have written itself. It informs us that Frank Abagnale Jr. [...]

— review by Roger Ebert at Chicago Sun-Times - 25 December 2002

After the philosophical constipation of "A. I. " and pseudo-seriousness of "Minority Report", Steven Spielberg rediscovers his sen [...]

— review at BBC Movies

Far more modest in ambition than most Spielbergs, and so less portentous and bombastic, this is the director's most likeable film [...]

— review by GA at Time Out

This is not a caper film, because it's based on a true story, but Steven Spielberg treats it as such. Not since Ocean's Eleven ha [...]

— review by Angus Wolfe Murray at Eye for Films

Leonardo DiCaprio fans will be somewhat pleased to see him clean shaven in this film straight off the back of his role in Gangs Of [...]

— review by Lottie Oaktrees at Eye for Films

Leonardo DiCaprio (Frank Abagnale Jr.)
Tom Hanks (Carl Hanratty)
Christopher Walken (Frank Abagnale)
Martin Sheen (Roger Strong)
Nathalie Baye (Paula Abagnale)
Amy Adams (Brenda Strong)
James Brolin (Jack Barnes)
Brian Howe (Earl Amdursky)
Frank John Hughes (Tom Fox)
Steve Eastin (Paul Morgan)
Chris Ellis (Special Agent Witkins)
John Finn (Assistant Director Marsh)
Jennifer Garner (Cheryl Ann)
Nancy Lenehan (Carol Strong)

Language: English, French
Country: United States
Running time: 141 minutes
(2 hours 21 minutes)
Release date:
United States: 25 December 2002

IMDB ID: 0264464