Leonardo DiCaprio has been in front of the camera for many master directors throughout his career. That includes Steven Spielberg, who co-directed the entertaining crime comedy Catch Me If You Can with the star. The film will be shown on TV on Sunday evening. The story of a con artist who is being hunted by the FBI based on a true story. However, according to more recent reports, the real background should not have been quite as true.
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Spielberg’s film is based on the autobiography of imposter and check fraudster Frank Abagnale Jr., who after a brief stint in the 1970s worked for the FBI in their check fraud division. In Catch Me If You Can we see how he got there, using forged documents to pose as a pilot and a doctor, among other things. Tom Hanks plays Carl Hanratty, an FBI agent who is on the hunt for Abagnale.
According to the New York Post, multiple sources and research reports question the credibility of Abagnale’s past. While Hank’s FBI agents didn’t actually exist, they are supposed to numerous details from the story inconsistencies and errors contain.
Among other things, his supposed position as a night-shift pediatrician at Cobb General Hospital would never have existed, as it didn’t even exist at the time of Abagnale’s story.
His prison break from an asylum in Atlanta that Spielberg does not show in his film also invented must have been, because Abagnale was never an inmate there. The number of forged checks (17,000 between the ages of 16 and 21) is also extremely unrealistic, since he was mostly in prison at the time.
When is Catch Me If You Can on TV?
Spielberg’s film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, is underway Sunday at 8:15 p.m. on RTL II.
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