Catch Me If You Can (1989 film)

Catch Me If You Can is a 1989 American motion picture starring Matt Lattanzi, Loryn Locklin, Grant Heslov, Geoffrey Lewis and M. Emmet Walsh. The film was the directorial debut of writer and director Stephen Sommers, with the soundtrack provided by Tangerine Dream.

The film was shot on location throughout St. Cloud, Minnesota where Sommers grew up, and at Cathedral High School and Apollo High School, which Sommers attended. The movie was funded through independent money and had a budget of 800,000. The film was Sommers directorial debut and it was written by him as well. After production was finished on the movie, the studio that had promised to distribute the movie had already gone out of business, and it was eventually released by MCA Inc. in July 1989. The movie did not fare well at the box office, only grossing 3686 in its domestic run, but the film mademillion dollars in the overseas market.The movie featured local residents who were cast as extras in the production and many of the hotrods, classic cars and muscle cars featured in the race scenes were owned by central Minnesota residents. Sommers would go on to achieve success directing The Mummy, released in 1999 and the sequel in 2001, The Mummy Returns. ........

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