Catch Me If You Can

Once again, I have decided to blog about one of my all time favorite movies. If you have yet to seen this, than you better go out and rent it, because it's great! This is a true story staring Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays a man by the name of Frank Abagnale Jr.. At the age of sixteen, Frank’s dad, Frank Abagnale Sr. (Christopher Walken), loses the granting of a loan due to IRS tax fraud on his part. This forces his family to move into a small apartment due to their budget restrictions. At this time, Frank Jr. is posing as a substitute to teacher to make a little extra money. This is the beginning of his many soon to come scams to make money. When Frank Jr. finds out that his mother had been cheating on his father for the past year, he becomes furious with her. They soon get a divorce leading Frank Jr. to rebel against his parents and run away. He does not resort to come home for years.

On his own at the age of 16, he soon begins to run out of money, which is something he cannot depend on from his own family. This leads him to one of his most ingenious scams as an airplane pilot. This impersonation as a pilot alone, allows him to scam the Pan American World Airways into paying him over 2.8 million dollars! He did this in under a year’s time by posing as a student interested in becoming a pilot and researching everything he could about plots, so that he could disguise himself as one. By doing this, he began to illegally make himself fake checks that appeared to come from the Pan American Airlines, which they thought that he was one of their employees. This skillful crime of check forgery will lead him to being soon investigated by the cops, specifically Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), an FBI bank fraud agent, who slowly begins to track down Frank with the help from his past acquaintances. This turns into years of him being chased down by the FBI with much struggle. Franks long avoidance from the police was mainly thanks to his several changes in impersonations of different careers such as, a doctor in Georgia, a lawyer serving as a Louisiana attorney, and parish prosecutor. The plot becomes more and more interesting throughout the movie so I won't ruin anymore of it for you. Like always, here's a preview of the movie: "Catch Me If You Can". You're going to love it!