Catch Me If You Can

Director: Steven Spielberg

2002 / 141min / 4K DCP

Divorce and the breakdown of the nuclear family, two things that run through Spielberg’s filmography, are here the catalysts for an extraordinary run of imposture undertaken by teenaged con artist Frank Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio), followed from one phony identity to the next by FBI bank agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), their relationship over the course of a years-long pursuit developing from that of foils to that of friends. A deeply personal film offering a bittersweet evocation of the early 1960s of Spielberg’s youth that anticipates 2022’s The Fabelmans, with superlative supporting work from Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye as Abagnale’s parents.