CATCH THEM IF YOU CAN

摘要

This christmas, as has become the custom, we will receive a great many movies, not all of them presents. Steven Spielberg, fortunately, comes bearing "Catch Me If You Can," a surprisingly touching chase movie set in the sunny early '60s and inspired by die real-life adventures of one Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), who forged millions of dollars' worth of phony checks and passed himself off as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor and a lawyer. Abagnale did all this while still in his teens. Which is to say: he was a con man before he was even a man. In "Catch Me," Frank is driven by two impulses that are so quixotic they're moving: he's desperate to impress his charming, dead-broke dad (Christopher Walken) and to undo, somehow, his parents' traumatizing divorce. As the movie unfolds, Frank chases stewardesses and nurses while a lonely, mostly competent FBI agent named Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) chases him (review, page 64). On a recent Friday afternoon, Spielberg, Hanks and DiCaprio met in a Manhattan hotel suite to talk about a life in movies―and a life in crime.