Given the usual scope of his films, it's rare that Steven Spielberg is able to release two in the same year, but just a handful of months after Minority Report, we're going to be treated to this latest film, which puts a biopic-style spotlight on one of the most clever criminal minds of the 20th century. If you think Spielberg is making a fast transition, that's nothing compared to Leonardo DiCaprio, who is faced with the odd situation of starring in two ambitious Oscar-wannabe movies opening on the very same day (see below). DiCaprio plays Frank W. Abagnale, a master-of-disguise and mimicry who posed as a wide range of professional occupations, including surgeon and pilot, while being chased by an FBI agent (Tom Hanks) who would eventually help Abagnale turn his talents towards being used for good, rather than evil, as a sort of surrogate father (because his real father, played by Christopher Walken, wasn't a great role model). People seem to be distracted by the publicity that Miramax is generating for Gangs of New York, but I'm equally excited (and possibly a bit more so... advance images from the film show Hanks' character holding a great "Flash" comic) about this film. The mid 1960s is a time that I know Spielberg is enamored of, even if we haven't seen it portrayed in his films much, so it should be interesting to see how he portrays that unique time in our history between the 1950s and the counterculture 1960s/1970s.

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