Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Luke Dunne and Jess Dunne from The Breakout Role Podcast, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can.
When his parents announce their divorce, high school student Frank Abagnale runs away home. He never stops running. The enterprising young man reinvents himself as a dashing airline pilot, a debonair doctor and a diligent lawyer. However, Frank can only stay ahead of the long arm of the law for so long. As the ground starts shrinking out from him, as FBI Agent Carl Hanratty closes in, Frank wonders if he’ll ever be able to stop running.
At time of recording, it was ranked 194th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show notes:
- Recorded 7th May 2020.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Note: Following a three-month season looking at international cinema, Catch Me If You Can guides us back into a season of American classics, both modern and older.
- Catch Me If You Can at The Internet Movie Database.
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- Listen to Luke and Jess discuss Mazes and Monsters on The Breakout Role Podcast, May 2020.
- Jen Yamato and Mark Olsen at The Los Angeles Times on what a post-pandemic Hollywood might look like, April 2020.
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- Frank Abagnale appears on To Tell the Truth, 1977.
- Luke Y. Thompson at Forbes reflects on the DVD release of Bosom Buddies, February 2018.
- Tom Hanks talks to The Los Angeles Times about his time working on Bosom Buddies, April 2010.
- Ryan Lambie looks back at Tom Hanks’ breakout hit Mazes and Monsters for Den of Geek, July 2019.
- Steven Spielberg talks to IGN about the development and production of Catch Me If You Can, December 2002.
- Steven Spielberg talks to CNN about what drew him to a project like Catch Me If You Can, December 2002.
- J.D. LaFrance at Wonders in the Dark reflects on the development of Catch Me If You Can, April 2019.
- The Guardian reports on Steven Spielberg assigning production of Memoirs of a Geisha over to Rob Marshall, August 2004.
- Anne Thompson at The New York Times looks at the development history of Memoirs of a Geisha, February 2006.
- The Guardian reports on Steven Spielberg’s next big project, Big Fish, August 2000.
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- Roger Ebert reviews Catch Me If You Can for The Chicago Sun Times, December 2002.
- Manohla Dargis reviews Catch Me If You Can for The Los Angeles Times, December 2002.
- Kim Masters at The New York Times reports on Catch Me If You Can opening opposite Gangs of New York, October 2002.
- Frank Abagnale talks to The Idaho Statesman about working with Spielberg on Catch Me If You Can, July 2019.
- John Young at Entertainment Weekly on the appeal of Freakazoid! as Steven Spielberg’s best cartoon of the nineties, September 2011.
- Rob Paulsen talks to Vice about the enduring appeal of Animaniacs, November 2018.
- David Denby at The New Yorker on Steven Spielberg at seventy, January 2017.
- Mike D’Angelo at The A.V. Club on the Christmas sensibility of Catch Me If You Can, December 2016.
- Claire Spellberg at Decider argues for Catch Me If You Can as a perfect holiday watch, December 2017.
- Jonathan Foster at Bright Wall/Dark Room discusses the importance of Christmas in the films of Steven Spielberg, December 2016.
- Nancy Miller at Entertainment Weekly discusses the design and development of the opening titles of Catch Me If You Can, January 2003.
- John Williams offers a new arrangement of Across the Stars to The John Williams Fan Network, November 2018.
- Ben Lindbergh at The Ringer on how John Williams defined and shaped Star Wars, January 2020.
- Adam Chitwood at Collider on how Catch Me If You Can may be Spielberg’s most personal movie, March 2018.
- Molly Haskel at Tablet Mag talks about how Spielberg’s parental divorce influenced his films, including Catch Me If You Can, July 2017.
- Steven Spielberg talks to RogerEbert.com about working on Catch Me If You Can, December 2002.
- Diane K. Shah at The Los Angeles Times discusses the mythology of Steven Spielberg, December 1993.
- Steven Spielberg talks to The Huffington Post about how he dealt with his parents’ divorce, October 2012.
- Frank Abagnale talks to Wired about his life and the death of the con artist, February 2017.
- Danny Salemme at Screenrant on Christopher Walken’s dancing, January 2020.
- Emily Harnett at The Atlantic on the history of the American con artist, March 2017.
- Jesse Hassenger at The A.V. Club looks at the working relationship between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, December 2015.
- A.O. Scott at The New York Times looks at the recurring theme of capitalism in the films of Leonardo DiCaprio, February 2014.
- Emily Nussbaum at The New Yorker argues that Don Draper has “the backstory of a serial killer”, May 2013.
- Michael Moore explains to Yahoo! News about why Canadians don’t lock their doors at night, March 2013.
- Edward Helmore at The Guardian reports on Anna Sorokin, the fake heiress who perpetrated a two-year con on New York’s high society, March 2019.
- Tom Huddleston Jr. at CNBC reports on the “McMillions” monopoly scam involving McDonald’s, February 2020.
- Meagan Day at The Jacobin interrogates the myth of the “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”, May 2018.
- Derek Thompson at The Atlantic reflects on the career trajectory and arc of Leonardo DiCaprio, February 2010.
- Max O’Connell at RogerEbert.com on the desperation that informs so much of Leonardo DiCaprio’s screen persona, July 2019.
- Andrew Cruttadaro offers an unofficial history of Leonardo DiCaprio’s “pussy posse” for Complex, November 2015.
- Tom Murray at Insider looks at the graph of Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriends by age, March 2019.
- Hunter Harris at Vulture discusses the rumoured relationship between Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio, June 2018.
- Andrew Gruttadaro at The Ringer offers a brief introduction to Leonardo DiCaprio’s obsession with beach volleyball, July 2018.
- Manuel Betancourt at Esquire on how Tom Hanks evolved into “America’s Dad”, September 2016.
- Guillermo Del Toro celebrates Catch Me If You Can with Bright Wall/Dark Room, February 2017.
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