Catch Me If You Can (2002)

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Movie
German title Catch Me If You Can
Original title Catch Me If You Can
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Country of production United States
original language English , French
Publishing year 2002
length 135 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 0
Rod
Director Steven Spielberg
script Jeff Nathanson
Collaboration: Frank Abagnale
production Walter F. Parkes ,
Steven Spielberg
music John Williams
camera Janusz Kamiński
cut Michael Kahn
occupation

Catch Me If You Can (ger .: Catch me if you can) is an American caper comedy from 2002. The biopic of Steven Spielberg based on events in the life of Frank Abagnale and a novel by Stan Redding . Abagnale is played by Leonardo DiCaprio , who was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal .

action

Frank William Abagnale Junior is the youngest con man and check forger in history. When his parents divorced in the 1960s, when he had to decide which parent he would like to grow up with, the 16-year-old left and moved to New York . After initially primitive attempts at fraud, he finally succeeds in forging checks sufficiently well. By writing the checks to banks far away, he can cash many of these checks in a city; because at this time the checks are still being sent by post to the bank that supposedly issued them. During the period until the checks have arrived there, he can cash further checks undisturbed.

Abagnale admired the social position of pilots and decided to pose as such in the future. He actually manages to fly thousands of miles for free as a deadhead and finance his life with fake paychecks. When the FBI investigator Hanratty gets on his trail, however, Abagnale's life becomes a permanent escape. Despite all this, he wants to keep in touch with his father and let him share in his wealth. But he refuses his gifts; he has the tax authorities on his neck due to tax debts.

Abagnale later meets the nurse Brenda in a hospital. Out of love for her, he applies for a position as senior physician. Although he is actually overqualified as a supposed Harvard graduate, he gets the job. Since he has mastered the technical terminology from medical series, he can give the impression that he is actually a doctor, although he cannot see any blood.

In order to reconcile Brenda, who had been cast out by her family, he asked for her hand and claimed to the family that he was a lawyer and, like Brenda's father, graduated from Berkeley . In fact, through this he gets a job as a lawyer. However, Frank has to continue his escape during the engagement party. He reveals himself to Brenda in the hope that she will accompany him. However, since Brenda is being shadowed, Frank sets off for Europe alone, again as a Pan-Am pilot.

As he slowly begins to lose his mind, the now internationally sought-after Abagnale is arrested in the French province of Montrichard , his mother's home village. He is extradited to America and, after another brief escape, sentenced to twelve years in prison. But soon he gets the offer to serve his sentence in freedom if he agrees to help in the FBI's fraud department with the investigation of check fraud . In fact, he works with success (due to all his knowledge) under Hanratty, who has risen to head the department and who has become a kind of surrogate father for him - his biological father was killed in an accident.

Others

  • Frank Abagnale himself plays a short scene in the film. He embodies the French policeman who finally arrested the fugitive Frank Abagnale on Christmas Eve in Montrichard.
  • Frank Abagnale used a. a. the name Barry Allen , which is the civil identity of the superhero The Flash .
  • The musical version of the film of the same name has been shown at the Neil Simon Theater on Broadway since March 11, 2011 . The European premiere took place on October 24, 2013 in the newly opened Kammerspiele of the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna.
  • In the animated series The Simpsons , season 15, episode 18 with the original title Catch 'Em If You Can (German Auf der Flucht ) - alludes to the film: A chase sequence is accompanied by the musical theme of the film and shown similar to the film opening credits (shadowy and with reduced colors and shapes).
  • The film had a budget of around $ 52 million.
  • The worldwide box office result was around 352 million US dollars.

criticism

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“A nostalgic story staged by Steven Spielberg with great ease, which takes the viewer into the candy-colored cinema world of the 1960s. The motivating, but all too detailed, father-son conflict occasionally hinders the flow of the sympathetic comedy. "

- Lexicon of international film .

“What a recovery. Steven Spielberg had stubbornly got his way into the cold, nightmarish underworld of the totalitarian surveillance system of Minority Report , which he would then not expect his audience to have without the sweet simulation of a fairy tale ending - and now, amazingly quickly afterwards, he juggles lightly with the Components of a classic crook hunt comedy and the colorful toys of the sixties cinema to conjure up a luxury-class art hoax on the screen. "

- Urs Jenny : The mirror .

“After the meaningful Saving Private Ryan , AI and Minority Report, his new film is now almost like a musical finger exercise; an elegant jazz number whose melody and rhythm Spielberg masters with surprising ease. "

- A. Busche : The time .

Awards and nominations

year Award category receiver Result
2003 Oscar Best supporting actor Christopher Walken nomination
Oscar Best film score John Williams nomination
Golden Globe Best Actor - Drama Leonardo DiCaprio nomination
BAFTA Award Best supporting actor Christopher Walken Award
BAFTA Award Best adapted script Jeff Nathanson nomination
BAFTA Award Best film score John Williams nomination
BAFTA Award Best costumes Mary Zophres nomination
SAG Award Best supporting actor Christopher Walken Award
MTV Movie Award Best actor Leonardo DiCaprio nomination

literature

  • Frank W. Abagnale Jr., Stan Redding: Catch me if you can. The amazing true story of the youngest and most daring con man in the history of fun and profit . Broadway Books, New York 2000, ISBN 0-7679-0538-5 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Catch Me If You Can . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2003 (PDF; test number: 92 766 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Catch Me If You Can . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Catch me if you can. In: www.josefstadt.org. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
  4. ^ Catch Me If You Can (2002) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
  5. ^ Catch Me If You Can (2002) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Rating from Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on November 23, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b Rating at Metacritic , accessed on November 23, 2014.
  8. ↑ Rating in the Internet Movie Database , accessed June 6, 2015.
  9. ^ Catch Me If You Can. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ↑ Urs Jenny: The innocent swindler . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 2003, p. 147 ( Online - Jan. 27, 2003 ).
  11. ↑ A. Busche: A mouse in a cream bucket. In: Zeit Online . Die Zeit, January 30, 2003, accessed December 14, 2013 .