Successfully eluding the FBI for years, Frank Abagnale, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a master of deception, posing as a commercial airline pilot, pediatrician, assistant attorney general and history professor, as well as a brilliant forger passing millions in bad checks both in the U.S. and Internationally. FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), has made it his prime mission to bring Abagnale to justice and pursues him relentlessly. Based on the autobiography of the most successful bank robber and con artist in U.S. history.