He assumed various jobs, such as pretending to be a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, a teacher, and an attorney. It is written in the first person and describes how Abagnale cashed $2.5 million worth of bad checks. The book is loosely based on the real con artistry exploits of Frank Abagnale. In the film, Abagnale was portrayed by actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Co-written by Abagnale and Stan Redding, Catch Me If You Can was adapted into a film of the same name by director Steven Spielberg in 2002. The book is acknowledged to have been partly fictionalized, and the factual basis for the events contained in the book has been challenged. Abagnale claims that, as a young man, he cashed $2.5 million worth of bad checks while impersonating a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, a teacher, and an attorney. Catch Me If You Can is a semi-autobiographical book about criminal exploits allegedly engaged in by Frank Abagnale Jr., an American onetime con artist.
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