Crime · Drama
Auto Focus
A day without sex is a day wasted.
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.
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Top Cast
Greg Kinnear
Bob Crane
Willem Dafoe
John Carpenter
Rita Wilson
Anne Crane
Maria Bello
Patricia Olson / Patrica Crane
Ron Leibman
Lenny
Kurt Fuller
Werner Klemperer
Ed Begley Jr.
Mel Rosen
Michael E. Rodgers
Richard Dawson
Directed by
Paul Schrader
Production
Propaganda Films
Good Machine
Sony Pictures ClassicsReviews
Wuchak
7/107/5/2025
**_Bob Crane's growing sexual addiction and murder_** Crane (Greg Kinnear) befriends a video expert named John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe) around the time he gets the gig for Hogan's Heroes. He is soon seduced by the temptations of being a big star; "free sex" is the sin du jour of the era and Crane can't resist the scores of beautiful women who want him. Unlike Crane, Carpenter isn't a star and isn't handsome, but he's able to continually pick up women simply due to his friendship with Bob. During and, especially, after his popular TV show, Crane experiences a downward spiral as he becomes entangled in the web of loose sex. By June, 1978, he was dead at 49. "Auto Focus" (2002) was based on Robert Graysmith's book "The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes?," which
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