Catch Me If You Can

Alfred Hitchcock called them "Technicolor baubles" — exquisitely crafted costume jewels (like his own TO CATCH A THIEF) that lose their luster next to real gems like VERTIGO. Steven Spielberg's jaunty escapade, which comes after a string of much darker and more complex films (A.I. ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE, MINORITY REPORT), is such a trinket, based on the 1980 memoir by Frank Abagnale Jr., a master impostor who successfully passed himself off as an airline pilot, a pediatrician, a lawyer, a sociology professor and a stockbroker — all before he turned 21. By the time the FBI finally caught up with him — Abagnale's Inspector Javert was a tireless G-man named Joe Shaye — ...