Catch Me If You Can

film by Spielberg [2002]

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Adams

  • Amy Adams
    In Amy Adams

    …DiCaprio in the crime comedy Catch Me If You Can (2002). Her performance as the naive wife Ashley in the independent film Junebug (2005), about the troubled relationships hidden in a Southern family, earned her an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. That charismatic innocence led to Adams’s later…

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DiCaprio

  • Leonardo DiCaprio
    In Leonardo DiCaprio

    , in Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can. Reteaming with Scorsese, DiCaprio portrayed a young Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004), for which he received a best actor Academy Award nomination.

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discussed in biography

  • Steven Spielberg
    In Steven Spielberg: The 2000s

    The radically different Catch Me If You Can was also released in 2002, and it was even more widely admired. The biopic was based on the memoir of con man extraordinaire Frank Abagnale, Jr., who as a teenager in the 1960s bilked both people and organizations out of…

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Garner

Hanks

  • Tom Hanks in Charlie Wilson's War
    In Tom Hanks

    …with Leonardo DiCaprio in Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can, and he portrayed Robert Langdon, a professor of symbology, in the 2006 film adaptation of Dan Brown’s hugely popular The Da Vinci Code; he reprised the role of Langdon in Angels & Demons (2009) and Inferno (2016). In Charlie Wilson’s…

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Pompeo

  • Ellen Pompeo
    In Ellen Pompeo: Later life and career

    …roles in the crime biopic Catch Me If You Can (2002), the superhero film Daredevil (2003), the comedy Old School (2003), the action thriller Art Heist (2004), and the comedy-drama Life of the Party (2005). She made a guest appearance on the widely popular situation comedy series Friends in 2004.

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Sheen

  • Martin Sheen
    In Martin Sheen: Career

    …Strong in the crime biopic Catch Me If You Can (2002) and the police captain Oliver Queenan in Martin Scorsese’s organized crime thriller The Departed (2006).

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Walken