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Who’s the Real Man Behind Catch Me if You Can?

Catch Me if You Can made us believe that someone as young as a teenager could convince people of almost anything. The movie stared the handsome Leonardo DiCaprio and talented Tom Hanks and is based on a true story. The Steven Spielberg film reeled in 352.1 million dollars at the box office, proving why we couldn’t get over the hype.

Frank Abagnale Jr. / Leonardo DiCaprio / Leonardo DiCaprio, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks / Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, and Frank Abagnale Jr.

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Before his nineteenth birthday, Frank Abagnale Jr. posed as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a prosecutor, and a doctor from Georgia. The con made him millions, but the facts behind the events aren’t fully understood to be accurate.