What's going on in that movie "Catch Me if You Can" ?!
Question: I missed more than half the movie...whose house does Frank go to when he gets back to the States? That house where the girl is looking out the window and they tap the glass and he asks where her mommy is... who is that lady? And why, at the end, does Carl keep asking him how he passed/cheated on the bar exam? I know he was a lawyer and everything, but why doesn't Carl ask him how he became a pilot or something...what was the importance of the bar exam question?
Answers: I missed more than half the movie...whose house does Frank go to when he gets back to the States? That house where the girl is looking out the window and they tap the glass and he asks where her mommy is... who is that lady? And why, at the end, does Carl keep asking him how he passed/cheated on the bar exam? I know he was a lawyer and everything, but why doesn't Carl ask him how he became a pilot or something...what was the importance of the bar exam question?
The house that he goes to is his mothers.. He had no where else to go and so he was asking the little girl [his sister] where her mother was. And he did become a lawyer but this profession was different because when he went to take his bar exam he passed it, on his own. He had never been to law school and just made a diploma but when it came time to take the bar exam he had no way of cheating.. So he studied for 3 weeks and passed on his own. Thats way frank keeps asking him because they cant figure out how he passed.
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Frank returns to his mother's house. She's remarried and the little girl in the window is his half-sister who he has never seen before. As for the question about the bar exam, Carl is amazed that Frank actually became (almost) one of the professionals that he pretended to be and all because he crammed for the exam. It just goes to show that Frank was exceptionally bright and a quick learner. If given the time and effort, Frank COULD have been a history teacher, pilot, doctor, or lawyer.
In reality, though, Carl hired him to do investigations and lecture at the FBI's Financial Crimes Unit. Frank went on to head his own security firm that is hired by major banks and corporations to organize security measures to protect them. The checks you write that have that little lock that appears on the back of them for the watermark, Frank was the one who invented and implemented that system to be a standard on all bank checks (personal and bank issued) to make it harder for them to be forged and altered.