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Frank Abagnale Jr. made himself into an extremely successful thief while still a teenager by learning how to forge checks and con victims into believing what he needed them to believe. Check forging became the young man’s dramatic response to his parents’ divorce.
Spielberg convinces us of this by lavishing time on young Frank’s relationship with his father, who, like his son, is theatrical and has a touch of larceny. Christopher Walken plays dad with more than his usual mischief and with a warmth and vulnerability.
With adolescent brio, Abagnale Jr. poses as an airline pilot, a doctor and a prosecutor to keep his con game alive, and, as he tells himself, to restore his broken father who lost
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