Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Frank Abegnale Jr. who runs away from home when he has to decide with which parent he wants to live when they go through a divorce. His father is Frank Abegnale (Christopher Walken) and his mother is Paula (Nathalie Bale). He decides to go into passing false checks, and discovers the best way to do this is as a pilot. Everyone trusts a pilot. So he gets a uniform, and passes himself off as a pilot. Banks and the airport cash payroll checks for the most, so he makes many counterfeit payroll checks, and cashes them wherever they go. When the FBI, agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) gets too close he gives up the airport business for a while, and takes up being a doctor. There he meets a nurse, Brenda Strong (Amy Adams) he he goes to meet her parents (Martin Sheen and Nancy Lenehan) eventually to propose marriage. He has a very big fraudulent business going, mostly cashing checks--to the tune of over a million dollars. Over time Hanratty gets closer and closer. He ever captur4es him on a couple occassions, but he always seems to get away. However eventually even this comes to an end and he is in a foreign prison and extradited back to the United States. Even though he is only 17 he is tried as an adult because of the scope and his always getting away, and he goes to prison. Hanratty then begins using him as a resource for information on checks and forgery.
Very interesting movie. It is based on a book Abegnale wrote of his life; however there is some doubt a bout the truthfulness of the book, He has admitted some of it was exagerated. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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