The film Catch Me If You Can came out in late 2002, with its wide theatrical release in the United States on December 25, 2002.

Movie release basics

  • The widely known Catch Me If You Can is the 2002 crime drama directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.
  • In the US, it opened nationwide in theaters on December 25, 2002, after a Los Angeles premiere earlier in December.

Other versions with the same title

  • There is also an older film titled Catch Me If You Can released in the United States on July 28, 1989, which is a different, unrelated movie.
  • When people ask “when did Catch Me If You Can come out,” they almost always mean the 2002 Spielberg film, which is why the 25 December 2002 date is usually given.

TL;DR: Catch Me If You Can (the famous Spielberg/DiCaprio film) was released in US theaters on December 25, 2002.

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