Catch Me If You Can (Biography) - 2OO2
Catch Me If You Can (
Biography) - 2OO2
New Rochelle, the
1960s.
High schooler
Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the
IRS. When his parents separate,
Frank runs away to
Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the
FBI tracks him down in
France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,
000,000 in bad checks.
Along the way, he's posed as a
Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent,
Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son.