Catch Me If You Can (2002)

“An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries. “

• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Release Date: 25 December 2002 (USA)
• Run Time: 141 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Biography , Crime , Drama
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some sexual content and brief language.

Tagline: The true story of a real fake.

Trivia: In the scene where Frank is escaping from Brenda’s father’s house, he says “A name doesn’t mean anything, right?” This is akin to the phrase “What’s in a name?” from Romeo and Juliet. Leonardo DiCaprio played Romeo in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the play Romeo + Juliet (1996).

Goofs: Anachronisms: When Frank interviews potential stewardesses, one of them sings a line from the song “Leaving on a Jet Plane”. This scene takes place in 1966 or 1967, long before the song was made popular by Peter, Paul, and Mary in 1969. The song was written in 1967 by John Denver (who made the song famous in 1973), which might have been before the scene in question, but it is highly unlikely that a student would have known the song before 1969.