| | Auto Focus DVD (3 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Murder Movies, Erotic Videos, Biography, True Story, Sex, 1960s, Tragedy, Actors | | Starring | Willem Dafoe, Greg Kinnear, Rita Wilson, Kurt Fuller, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman, Michael Rodgers, Bruce Solomon | | Director | Paul Schrader | | Composer | Angelo Badalementi | | Executive Producer | James Schamus, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Rick Hess | | Producer | Todd Rosken | | Screenwriter | Trevor Macy, Michael Gerbosi |
A voyeuristic look into the colorful life and mysterious death of television legend Bob Crane, star of TV's "Hogan's Heroes", starring Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Marial Bello, Rita Wilson. Special DVD features include Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe commentaries, a director's commentary, "Murder in Scottsdale" documentary, making-of featurette, 5 deleted scenes, more. AUTO FOCUS is the story of Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear), who was the star of the television series HOGAN'S HEROES in the 1960s. Before he achieved that particular fame, Crane was a popular radio talk show host in Hollywood. His television work brought him a level of visibility and notoriety that he turned directly into sexual opportunity. Gallivanting with sleazy audiovisual salesman John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe), Crane built a life as a desperately addicted sex maniac. As the first home video cameras were invented, Carpenter and Crane began a prolific hobby of coercing girls to appear on tape while engaging in lewd sexual acts. The more intensely obsessed Crane became with his habit, the less his acting career mattered. He divorced his wife, allowing her custody of their two children, and remarried, having another son, only to divorce again. Meanwhile, his relentless sexual exploits became increasingly impersonal and mean-spirited. His public image suffered as he shamelessly made tasteless, sexualized remarks and got a reputation for openly displaying photographs of himself receiving oral sex. Paul Schrader's powerful, deeply effective, and darkly disturbing film makes a 180-degree transition as its story rolls out. What begins as a happy, colorful, naive portrayal of the entertainment industry becomes the nightmare of one man's disintegration in the face of temptation, money, and power. Theatrical Release: OCTOBER 18, 2002 (NY/LA) Auto Focus Reviews: "...A splendidly taut example of the genre....An exemplary Shrader work, a painfully funny and misanthropic treatise on American masculinity and its sexualised image..."
-- Linda Ruth Williams, Sight and Sound "...[Kinnear] makes the character's reckless downhill slide into a mesmerizing spectacle..."
-- Stephen Farber, Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Scathing and inventively warped..."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly "...An astute account of the downward life spiral of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane....It ranks as a shrewd expose of recent Hollywood's slimy underside..."
-- Todd McCarthy, Variety "...Strangely wonderful and weirdly touching..."
-- Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times "...Michael Gerbosi's script is economically packed with telling scenes..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today
This is the only Bruce Solomon video. Auto Focus | List Price | $9.95 (You save $2.90) | | Studio | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2002 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  16393  | | CD Universe Part number | 5568897 | | Catalog number | 10386 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Mar 18, 2003 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | strong sexuality, nudity, language, some drug use, and violence | | Also Known As | Autofocus | | Running Time | 104 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Digital Sound; Stereo Sound; Letter Boxed; Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled |
Auto Focus Movie Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)   Bob crane
I am a huge fan of Bob Crane, in " Hogans Heros", so when I came across this DVD quite by accident , I had to have it. It is both informative and disturbing to watch. His life style seemed to result in his murder, which was never solved. There were many theores but most suspected that Cranes friend, John Carpenter, murdered him. There is additional information about the murder in the special features. Some of the actual murder photos are disturbing to watch. Greg Kinnear did a good job as Bob Crane and all in all it was worth watching. Much of the subject matter is not for kids.
Submitted by Pat (Michigan , USA) 
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I watched this and I was asking myself the whole time how accurate or exagerrated is this movie. Greg Kinnear's performance is about as close to the real Hogan as you can get.
Submitted by Blake (Brandon,MS)
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Auto Focus shouldn't have gone unnoticed
Kudos Mr. Kinnear. I used to loathe you as host of "Later with Greg Kinnear", but after seeing you in Auto Focus, I applaud you in the effort of bringing someone to life whom I knew very little about aside from "Hogan's Heroes". As Bob Crane gets older, the more Kinnear looks like him. Of course there is some dispute as to who killed him, what facts were true and what wasn't, etc, and that's with almost every movie, but I feel that he was overlooked at Oscar time. Call me silly for that comment, but I really think you get a glimpse of someone's life who felt sex was and is healthy, and should be viewed in any and every ways possible. As Crane, he comes off somewhat egotistical at times yes, but he was a classic case of someone who was getting it together in his life and it was cut short. This movie is absolutely worth seeing and getting. The documentary alone is worth seeing and forming your own opinion.
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Auto Focus DVD Region 1
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Letterbox -
1.85
Widescreen -
1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary (5)
Audio Commentary:
1. Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe - Stars
2. Paul Schrader - Director
3. Producers and Writers
Featurette:
1. MURDER IN SCOTTSDALE
2. Making-Of
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
DVD-ROM Features:
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