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starring: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Maria Bello, Ron Leibmandirected by: Paul Schrader
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781404908703
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 1404908706
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: July 08, 2003
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 45228
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Amazon.com:
Auto Focus captures the scandalous private life of Bob Crane, star of the German P.O.W. camp sitcom Hogan's Heroes. Greg Kinnear plays the affable comic actor, who nursed an obsession with sex--pornography, strippers, swinging, domination, and especially the videotaping of his own sexual exploits. His behavior led to the downfall of two marriages and enmeshed Crane in a strangely symbiotic relationship with a video equipment salesman named John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe); Carpenter provided the technology, and Crane (through the power of his fame) provided the girls. Their friendship ultimately wore thin and may have led to Crane's gruesome death. Auto Focus is a lot like an episode of Behind the Music, but with sex in the place of the usual downfall-causing drugs; though elegantly filmed, it doesn't delve too deeply into Crane's joy, and so never gets a genuine feel for his pain either. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Riveting and Disturbing
I just saw this film for the second time over the weekend and must, once again, express amazement over the outstanding work that Greg Kinnear put in. I grew up watching Hogan's Heroes and I think he made an excellent Bob Crane. As for Willem Dafoe, I don't recall him ever being less than spectacular in anything I've seen. Generally when he is on camera it is impossible not to train one's eyes on him. He was a highly believable John Carpenter.
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Rating:  - Schrader makes a good film--at last
The late, likable Bob Crane's life spiraled out of control, it seems, when fame and money came knocking.
It could happen to anyone, so we're not judging here at all. A good lesson to be learned: fame and money aren't everything...only those who are lucky (or unlucky) to be in the position, don't always handle it well.
Like I said, it could have happened to any one of us.
Crane had a certain charm, charisma...and made Hogan's Heroes a fun way to spend thirty minutes
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Rating:  - I really think its not relevant to the man.
I really enjoy Hogans Hereos . I think we all have things that we are not willing to share no matter how minor. I think this really boils down to a person just being taken advantage of after death. Isnt that how it always is . A person dies and the media starts to have fun poking at him or her. Its not important wether he was wrong or right . Do any of us have any room to talk. I was angry at what Disney did to him. Expecially when on my last trip to Disney World myself wife and kids had to watch two men ... Read More
Rating: - Deeply disturbing
When I took a trip to see my relatives recently, I noticed with some interest my grandfather's fascination with old television programs. He doesn't get around as much as he once did, so he spends a lot of time parked in front of the television set watching shows on DVD. He has quite a collection. During the time I was there, he played "Hogan's Heroes" on a perpetual loop. I haven't seen the series in years, and most of the shows hold up pretty well. Colonel Klink's endless confusion still garners a few guffaws, ... Read More
Rating: - i wonder what klink & schultz were up to ...
a wonderfully bizarre take on the rise & fall of actor bob crane, a straight-laced suburbanite who is besotted with sexual perversity. in watching reruns of "hogans heroes" these days, its easy to see the truth beneath the leering lechery of colonel hogan (btw, the recreations of the tv series are dead-on perfect), and greg kinnear continues his unsung career as one of the best actors in hollywood, in a role on a par with sam rockwells take on chuck barris in "confessionsof a dangerous mind". the movie might ... Read More
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