Frank hands Carl his wallet knowing he can’t open it with one hand while holding the gun. Absolute cinema.🔥🍿🎥

Basically a jew that scammed people out of money his entire life.

Frank Abagnale isn’t Jewish. He’s of Italian father and French mother descent and was raised Catholic

The whole story is a lie.

His real check fraud was tiny by comparison, and most of the glamorous long cons don’t hold up. The biggest con was selling the myth.

Frank never getting a photo of his target is dumb beyond all reason.

The whole point early on is that Frank’s a teenage runaway with zero adult paper trail, so the FBI’s flying blind.

As a movie reviewer I remember this scene from catch me if you can (2002). I hope I’m right because I’ve got too many movies in my head

You’re right it’s the hotel room scene from Catch Me If You Can (2002) where Frank DiCaprio pretends to be Secret Service agent “Barry Allen.”

Tom Hanks is genuinely such an overrated actor.

The common overrated critique usually boils down to Hanks preferring grounded, likable, or heroic roles over flamboyant transformations.

I read the book, some extra stuff that wasn’t in the movie, very funny.

Nice the book has a bunch of those extra little cons and near-misses that got trimmed for the movie. Anything in particular that stood out as funnier than the film version?”

Hanks clearly puts his gun away. Plus he doesn't ask about his superior? Dept? Case number? NOTHING? The kid looks 16 and you don't have him show you his ID? This whole movie makes no sense, and the real Abagnale says his book was completely fabricated as well.

The scene is pure movie logic. Abagnale himself later said the co-author overdramatized and exaggerated a lot of the book

#MarkCarney

Interesting movie

Hanks is such a terrible actor and surely, has the most grating voice in film.

Disagree. Hanks’ Carl Hanratty is one of his most underrated turns Spielberg called it making “a meal of anonymity.

Best scene in Catch Me if You Can. Spielberg used to make great movies. Now he makes "Disclosure Day"..... lol