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Catch Me If You Can Film: Synopsis
Catch Me If You Can Film: Synopsis
SYNOPSIS
New York with his father Frank Abagnale, Sr. (Christopher Walken), and French
mother Paula (Nathalie Baye). When Manhattan's Chase Bank refuses Frank Sr.'s
loan due to unknown difficulties with the IRS, the family is forced to move from
their large house to a small apartment. Paula has an affair with Jack (James
in his French class. Frank's parents file for divorce, and Frank runs away. When
he ran out of money, he began to rely on fraud with confidence. Soon, Frank's
abilities improved and he even imitated an airline pilot. He forced Pan Am to give
him a pay check and managed to steal more than $ 2.8 million.
Meanwhile, Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), a bank fraud specialist at the FBI, starts
tracking down Frank. Carl and Frank meet at a hotel, where Frank convinces Carl
that his name is Barry Allen of the Secret Service, and that he too is investigating
a fraud. Then Frank left, a moment later Carl was annoyed because he was too late
to realize that he too had been tricked. Then, at Christmas, Carl was still working
when Frank called him, trying to apologize for his actions with Carl. Carl rejects
his apology and tells him that he will soon be caught. Carl laughs when he realizes
Frank called him because he has no one else to talk to. Frank hangs up, and Carl
continues investigating, suddenly realizing (thanks to the waiter) that the name
“Barry Allen” is from a comic flash book and that Frank is actually a teenager.
Meanwhile, Frank continues his scam, this time under the identities of a doctor
and lawyer. While playing Dr. Frank Conners, he falls in love with Brenda (Amy
Adams). And asking her father's permission to marry Brenda, she confesses the
truth about herself and asks for help taking the Louisiana State Bar exams. Carl
tracks Frank to the engagement party, but Frank is able to sneak out of the
bedroom window a few minutes before Carl bursts in. Before leaving, Frank
promised Brenda to meet in Miami two days later so they could elope. Frank saw
him waiting for him two days later, but also saw several plainclothes agents
preparing to ambush him, realizing that the FBI manipulated him to escape to
Europe.
Seven months later, Carl reveals to his boss that Frank has been printing checks
all over Western Europe himself and asks permission to go to Europe to look for
them. When his boss refuses, Carl brings Frank's original but fake check to a
professional check printer and says it was printed in France. From an interview
with Frank's mother, Carl remembers that Frank was actually born in
Montrichard, France. Then Carl goes there and finally finds Frank, and tells him
that the French police will kill him if he doesn't go with Carl secretly. Frank
thinks he's lying at first, but Carl promises Frank that he won't lie to him, and Carl
takes him out when the French police take him to jail.
The scene then accelerates to a plane carrying Frank and Carl home from prison,
where Carl informs him that his father has died. Frank escapes from the plane and
returns to his old home, where he finds his mother with the man he cheated on, as
well as a girl who Frank realizes is his half sister. Frank then surrenders himself
and is sentenced to 12 years in prison, and is visited many times by Carl. When
Frank points out that one of the investigators' pieces of evidence is fake, Carl
convinces the FBI to offer Frank a deal to serve his sentence by working in the
bank's fraud department at the FBI, which Frank finally accepts. While working at
the FBI, Frank misses the thrill of being a carl and being someone else and getting
back into the scam again. However he is cornered by Carl, who insists that Frank
will return to his FBI job because no one is after him. The following Monday,
Carl is nervous because Frank hasn't come to work. However, Frank finally
The end credits to the film reveal that Frank has been happily married for 26
years, has three children, lives in the Midwest, and is still good friends with Carl.
They've caught some of the toughest counterfeiters in the world, and make
millions of dollars every year for their work creating unmanageable checks.
GLOSARRY
Are = (v) Second person singular present and first, second, third person
prular present of be
Branch = A part of tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough
Card = (v) A piece of thick, stiff paper or thin pasteboard,in particular one
used for writing or printing on
Flew = (v) (of an aircraft or its occupants) travel through the air
Fuck = (v) Fuck is one of the most common words in English — it's also
one of the most offensive. It's main meaning is "have sex," but it has