Film Forum

U.S., 2002
Directed by Steven Spielberg
With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken
Music by John Williams
Approx. 141 min. 4K DCP.

“Taken from a true story, the film centers on middle class teenager Frank Abagnale Jr (DiCaprio) who, shaken by the separation of his parents (Walken and Baye), leaves the suburbs for NYC and starts cashing fake checks to get by. It helps to pretend he's an airline pilot — the first of several identities adopted to avail himself of cash, girls, and bogus careers that can restore pride to a dad plagued by the taxman. Trouble is, Junior's japes also interest FBI fraud specialist Carl Hanratty (Hanks).” – Time Out

Reviews

“Supremely entertaining. An extraordinarily fluid and instinctive actor, Mr. DiCaprio has always conveyed the slippery acuity of a chameleon whiz kid who could talk his way in and out of any situation, and his performance is a glorious exhibition of artful, intuitive slipping, sliding and wriggling.”
– Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“Breezily enjoyable.”
– Peter Rainer, The New Yorker