Review 177: Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a hilarious, touching and biographical crime film and a showcase for Steven Spielberg's excellent craftsmanship as well as two superb performances from stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.
Based on the autobiography Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale & Stan Redding. Before his 19th birthday, Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), the son of an affluent local Frank Abagnale Sr. (Christopher Walken) successfully performs a series of cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways Pilot, a Georgia doctor and a Louisiana parish prosecutor. This lead him to with the FBI lead by Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) hot on his tail.
The plot is a simply
The beauty of this film is how Spielberg is able to make us sympathise with Frank Abagnale Jr.'s situation. He never glorifies his story and make
Frank was very much a 21st genius working within an innocence of the mid '60's during a time when people were more trusting than they are now.
Catch Me If You Can deals primarily with broken homes and troubled childhoods, poignet and powerful themes that resonate strongly with Spielberg as a filmmaker whose parents divorced when he was a teenager similarly as to what happens with Frank's parents and thereby setting the story in motion.
A big part of Hanratty's character is how lonely he is following his divorce from his wife who lives with their daughter in Chicago.
The plot is a simply
The beauty of this film is how Spielberg is able to make us sympathise with Frank Abagnale Jr.'s situation. He never glorifies his story and make
Frank was very much a 21st genius working within an innocence of the mid '60's during a time when people were more trusting than they are now.
Catch Me If You Can deals primarily with broken homes and troubled childhoods, poignet and powerful themes that resonate strongly with Spielberg as a filmmaker whose parents divorced when he was a teenager similarly as to what happens with Frank's parents and thereby setting the story in motion.
A big part of Hanratty's character is how lonely he is following his divorce from his wife who lives with their daughter in Chicago.
Steven Spielberg's direction is sensitive, the cinematography is beautiful and captures the beauty of 60's, the production design is terrific, the costumes are the score by John Williams is
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks are brilliant in their respective roles as Frank Abagnale Jr. and Carl Hanratty. Their dynamic and conflict is captivating, their both at odds with each other yet they can't exist without the other a fact that is cemented by how they only have each other to call at Christmas as they both come from broken families.
Christopher Walken
Martin Sheen has a very interesting role
A then unknown Amy Adams
5/5.
The Aonymous Critic.
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