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Release Date
• USA: Oct 18, 2002
• UK: 7 Mar 2003
DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 18, 2003
• R2: 29 Sep 2003
Budget $7,000,000
Official Website:
Auto Focus Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong sexuality, nudity, language, some drug use and violence.
Running Time
1 hour, 45 minutes
Country USA
Studio Good Machine, Propaganda Films
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Other Titles
• Auto Focus
• Autofocus (2002)
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Genre: Drama, Biography, Murder, True Story, Tragedy, Erotic, Infidelity, Marriage, Period Piece
Tagline: A day without sex is a day wasted.
Plot: 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
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 | Rita Wilson
Sleepless in Seattle, Runaway Bride, That Thing You Do! |
 | Maria Bello
Secret Window, Payback, A History of Violence |
 | Kurt Fuller
Anger Management, Wayne's World, Ghostbusters II |
 | Ed Begley Jr.
This Is Spinal Tap, The Accidental Tourist, Get Over It |
 | Michael McKean
This Is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Planes, Trains & Automobiles |
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