A lark for Steven Spielberg, this is based on the true story of Frank W. Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio), who spent most of the 1960s posing as an airline pilot, an attorney, a pediatrician and a college professor, all while he was between the ages of 16 and 21. It could have been a revealing portrait of a brilliantly antisocial psyche, but Spielberg and a delightfully loose DiCaprio are content to make a fun, frivolous jaunt set to a ’60s beat. With Tom Hanks providing comic relief as the FBI man on Abagnale’s heels.
