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Catch Me If You Can is a film which was released in the year 2002, leading to a gross earning over 150 million. The actors in the film had earned multiple awards and the film itself earned Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best director and BMI Film Music Award. Three major roles in the film were Leonardo DiCaprio who played the main character of Frank Abagnale, Jr., Tom Hanks as Carl Hanratty, the FBI agent, and Christopher Walken as Frank Abagnale, Sr. The story of the film was quite accurate for being a Hollywood movie, however, a couple of characters had been merged, events had been over exaggerated and are not in the exact order of how it really happened for the sake of entertainment. As stated by the real Mr. Abagnale it must be understood that the movie shall not be taken as a biographical documentary. The story is based on a young man by the name of Frank …show more content…
A few examples of the inacurate moments would be that in the film it was stated that Frank Abagnale had wrote 10 million dollars worth of bad checks and was on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List. When in reality, Mr. Abagnale had only written 2.5 million and he was never on the Most Wanted List due to the fact that the FBI mainly posted violent criminals on the list, which he was not. The FBI agent, Carl Hanratty was one of the characters who had gotten merged from several FBI agents who had been involved with the case. In fact, it was an agent by the name of Joseph Shea who had captured Frank Abagnale. Mr. Abagnale did serve time in France, Sweden and the United States, and was given twelve years but only completed a total of five years. Another case of innacuracy is Mr. Abagnale remained in contact with his father, Mr. Abagnale Sr., because the director, Steven Spielburg, believed it would make the film better if they stayed in contact. When in fact Mr. Abagnale did not keep in contact with his

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