Things In Catch Me If You Can You Only Notice After A Rewatch

Tired of the seemingly endless "'Die Hard' is a Christmas movie!" discussions and fresh out of other stealth Christmas movies to watch during the holidays? Don't sleep on "Catch Me If You Can," which upon revisiting contains not just one, nor two or three, but four Christmases.

The film opens on Christmas Eve in 1969, as FBI agent Carl Hanratty arrives at a French prison to attempt to extradite a captive Frank, whom he's been hunting for years. The film then flashes back to Christmas six years earlier, beginning the story with Frank's happy family at the holidays in 1963. After his parents split up, Frank runs away to begin his life of crime — but calls Carl on Christmas Eve in 1965 and 1966, mostly because he has no one else to talk to.

When Carl finally catches up with Frank, it just so happens to be on Christmas Eve in 1967! Frank even wonders aloud, "How is it we're always talking on Christmas, Carl?", which is probably a better question for the screenwriter. After Frank presumably spends Christmas 1968 languishing in horrible French prison conditions, we return to Christmas 1969 as he makes a brief escape to try and see his mother one last time.

To top everything off, "Catch Me If You Can" was released on Christmas Day in 2002.