cover image Catch Me If You Can: The Film and the Filmmakers

Catch Me If You Can: The Film and the Filmmakers

Jeff Nathanson. Newmarket Press, $22.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-1-55704-553-9

Alternately posing as a doctor, a lawyer and a co-pilot for a major airline, con artist Frank W. Abagnale was the most successful bank robber in U.S. history and at age 17 became the youngest person ever wanted by the FBI. Catch Me if You Can: The Film and the Filmmakers documents the Steven Spielberg movie based on Abagnale's life and features an introduction by Abagnale, in which he explains the events of his life as they were filmed and tells how his story went from a talk show interview to a book to a Hollywood movie starring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio. The illustrated screenplay takes up the bulk of the book and is punctuated with full-color photographs from the movie. Sidebars offer perspectives from the actors, production designers, costume designers and others.