The gypsy in me

Catch Me If You Can

(2002)

First saw this on the Christmas Day of its release, which, looking at the year, I realize was my first official postdivorce Christmas-as-a-pseudo-Jew Christmas (and I recall that the theater demographics for this Spielberg film gratifyingly reinforced the cliché I was embracing). Another first was that it was my introduction to Amy Adams, and seeing her yesterday in The Muppets helped to inspire this screening.

It remains a sad, funny film about fathers and sons and truth and consequences and the Yankees' pinstripes. A perfect holiday-season depression film, and a perfect holiday-season antidepression film as well.