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Catch Me if You Can (2002) Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks based on the novel by Frank Abagnale Jr.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Born: November 11, 1974 Birthplace: Hollywood, California, USA	Frank William Abagnale, Jr. Born: April, 1948 Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA

"Things that happen in real life are sometimes a hundred times more fascinating than anything a person could make up off the top of his head," - Leonardo DiCaprio Questioning the Story (Fact or Fiction): Was the FBI Agent played by Tom Hanks a real person? No, there is no real Carl Hanratty, Tom Hanks revealed in an interview. There was an agent who was Frank's main contact, but a lot of FBI agents helped catch Abagnale. Did Frank really escape a VC10 jetliner by removing the toilet and climbing down beneath it, eventually escaping through a hatch onto the tarmac? The event is in Frank's 1981 memoir, but airline experts say it is impossible. "The entire system is sealed," says Skip Jones of the Aerospace Industries Association. (Click Image to Enlarge) "To look at him, you wouldn’t think he could steal a postage stamp. But he has an almost unconscious way of engaging you with his eyes, with his energy and with his intelligence." - Leonardo DiCaprio PLAY: Watch Frank Abagnale Jr. Speaking -     Windows Media, 9:46 Interview runs approx. 9:46 min. Made available thanks to kepplerspeakers. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN /***1/4 Movie Review   Frank Abagnale, Jr. Speaks (watch the interview):   "No matter what happens in there, you can't get into the rest of the airplane." Payload systems engineer Alan Anderson explains that the toilets are mounted on top of tanks that weigh over 100 pounds, and even if he manage to undo the toilet, he would have to crawl through a pipe four inches in diameter. "A person would have to be pretty small, and it would be messy," says Anderson. Why did he do it? Only Frank Abagnale, Jr. can answer this question, and in an interview he said the following, "It begins with my parents’ divorce and its dramatic effect on me. I ran away and suddenly found myself a teenager alone in the world. I had to grow up very quickly and become very creative in order to survive. But what started out as survival became more and more of a game. I was an opportunist, so when I saw an opening I asked myself, ‘Could I get away with that?’ Then there was the satisfaction of actually getting away with it. The more I got away with, the more of a game it became—a game I knew I would ultimately lose, but a game I was going to have fun playing until I did."   Movie Synopsis: "Catch Me if You Can" tells the true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), a successful con artist who at different times impersonated a doctor, a lawyer, and an airplane pilot, passing more than $6 million in bad checks over a range of 26 countries. He became the youngest man to ever make the FBI's most-wanted list for forgery. Hunted and caught in the film by fictional FBI Agent Carl Hanratty (Hanks), Abagnale later escaped. He eventually became a consultant for the FBI where he focused on white-collar crime.   Leonardo DiCaprio and Frank Abagnale, Jr. (on the set):   Watch the Catch Me If You Can Movie Preview: - at CTF's Trailer Page for the Film

Frank Abagnale

Frank W. Abagnale is one of the world's most respected authorities on the subject of forgery, embezzlement and secure documents. For twenty-two years, he has lectured to, and consulted with, hundreds of financial institutions, corporations and government agencies around the world.

Mr Abagnale's rare blend of knowledge and expertise began to develop in his teenage years. More than thirty years ago, he was known as the "Great Impostor," one of the world's most famous professional cheque writers whose career in crime has been depicted in the best-selling book and later Hollywood Movie, "Catch Me If You Can". He cashed $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in every US state and 26 foreign countries over a five-year period. Between the ages of 16 and 21, he successfully posed as a pilot, an assistant attorney-general, a college professor and a pediatrician. Apprehended by the French police when he was 21 years old, he served time in the French, Swedish and US prison systems. After five years, he was released on the condition that he would, without remuneration, help the US government write policies and procedures to curtail white-collar crime.

Mr. Abagnale lectures extensively at the FBI Academy and for the FBI's field offices. He is a past faculty member of the American Bankers Association's Security Officers School. More than 14,000 financial institutions, corporations and law enforcement agencies use his fraud prevention programmes.