I’m participating in the A-Z Blog Challenge. You can find the big list of participants by Googling. Each blog has a different theme. I’m doing a favorite movie of mine that starts with the days letter each day, but taking off on Sundays with a regular Kerry nonsense post.
Catch me if You Can, 2002
This movie answers the question “what would it be like if Leonardo DiCaprio was devilishly handsome, made a lot of money, and was a hit with the ladies?”
I’m serious. Catch Me if You Can is based on the autobiography of Frank Abagnale, who claims that before his 19th birthday, he successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor. Abagnale’s claims are disputed, but hey, they make for one heckuva story. Abagnale went on to work with the FBI on check fraud detection, then started his own company that advised companies on keeping documents secure and he’s, still around, now working in cybercrime.
Tom Hanks plays FBI agent Carl Hanratty, who spends two or three years (it’s not stated how long) attempting to catch Frank. I consider this a Christmas movie because there are several Christmas scenes — twice, Frank calls Carl on Christmas Eve because he says he has no one else to call on Christmas. Later, Frank is finally arrested on his mother’s snowy lawn while his step-siblings celebrate Christmas, unaware of what’s going on outside.
Frank is a conman who is impossible to dislike. You’re rooting for him to pull off these crazy schemes and you feel for him because of the setup in the beginning with his family breaking up. At Christmas.
This might be my favorite DiCaprio film.
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