Less than 18-year-old Frank Abagno (Leonardo DiCaprio), devastated by his parents' divorce, lonely and sadly begins the business of forging checks to defraud cash. He succeeded one at a time, writing a total of $6 million in empty checks in 50 U.S. states and 28 countries around the world, becoming the youngest criminal on the U.S. wanted list in the past years. Soon after, he impersonated a pilot to fly in a high-class plane and stay in a high-end hotel.
Cheat to become the captain
He has since used a forged Harvard medical degree certificate to work as an emergency physician at a hospital in Georgia. There, he quickly falls in love with a paramedic named Brenda (Amy Adams), and frank Abagno follows his girlfriend to her hometown of New Orleans. Breda's father (Martin Sheen), a prosecutor, heard that Frank Abagno graduated from law at the University of California, Berkeley, and was so happy that his daughter had found such a boyfriend that he arranged for him to be an assistant prosecutor. frank. Abbagno is also satisfied with his current career. Just as he wants to get louisiana's legal qualification exam through his own efforts, persistent FBI investigator Joe Schaufer (Tom Hanks) sets his sights on him.
Pretending to be Cia to evade the FBI hunt
Based on Frank Abagno Jr.'s autobiography, "Have the Power to Catch Me— A Surprising True Story of a Fraudster," the film tells the story of a cat-and-mouse contest between FBI agent Carl and Frank, a criminal who specializes in forging documents.