Why Catch Me If You Can Is One of Spielberg’s Most Personal Films

Steven Spielberg has made a lot of great movies.

He invented the summer blockbuster.

He crafted one of the defining films about World War II.

He introduced the world to no less than three stone-cold classic iconic characters before the age of 40.

There’s a reason he’s called a master filmmaker, and his ability to tell a story with a camera is in many ways still unparalleled.

With so many classics under his belt, we’ve come to categorize an entire group of Spielberg films as “Minor Spielberg”—movies that don’t reach the heights of, say, Jaws, but are still better than 90 of what else is out there.

But one “Minor Spielberg” film in particular has been somewhat underrated, although definitely not forgotten.

His 2002 effort Catch Me If You Can is a flighty, sexy, incredibly fun caper, but it’s also one of Spielberg’s most complex—and

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