Auto focus [videorecording] / Sony Pictures Classics in association with Propoganda Films and Good Machine a film by Paul Schrader ; producers, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Todd Rosken, Pat Dollard, Alicia Allain ; writer, Michael Gerbosi ; director, Paul Schrader.
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FilmPublisher number: 10386 | Columbia TriStar Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Summary language: Spanish, English Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2003], c2002.Edition: Special ed.; Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1404908722
- 9781404908727
- Auto focus (Motion picture).
- Director of photography, Fred Murphy ; editor, Kristina Boden ; music, Angelo Badalamenti ; costume designer, Julie Weiss ; production designer, James Chinlund.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The life and sordid, untimely death of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane are explored by director Paul Schrader in this biopic, which marks one of the few times the filmmaker has not scripted his own film. Auto Focus chronologically traces the meteoric rise of Crane's show business career, beginning with his early success as a jokey deejay on Los Angeles morning radio in the early '60s. A devout family man, Crane lives in Southern Californian comfort with his wife Anne (Rita Wilson) and their young children, relishing the modicum of celebrity his job provides him. His life begins to change, however, when his agent Lenny (Ron Leibman) proposes that he take a breakthrough role on the CBS POW-camp sitcom Hogan's Heroes. Initially reluctant to take the job, Crane signs on with the production and, to his and everyone else's surprise, the show becomes a smash hit. With celebrity comes a new set of friends, and Crane falls in with audio-visual guru John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe), a Sony sales rep who spends his days setting up home entertainment systems for the Hollywood elite, and his nights cruising strip clubs for anonymous sexual encounters. Already a pornography buff, Crane starts using his fame to secure him and Carpenter an endless parade of affairs, which they videotape and then obsessively review. It isn't long before Anne demands a divorce, and Crane marries his Hogan's co-star Patti Olsen (aka Sigrid Valdis, here played by Maria Bello), who's more accepting of his escapades. When the sitcom is canceled, however, Crane has trouble securing acting jobs, and recedes further and further into his life of amateur porn with Carpenter. Auto Focus premiered at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals before its art-house run in the fall of 2002. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi
Based on the book "The murder of Bob Crane" by Robert Graysmith.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2002.
Special features: Commentaries by Director Paul Schrader, actors Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe, producers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski & writer MIchael Gerbosi ; Murder in Scottsdal documentary ; making-of featurette ; 5 deleted scenes with optional director commentary ; bonus trailers.
Director of photography, Fred Murphy ; editor, Kristina Boden ; music, Angelo Badalamenti ; costume designer, Julie Weiss ; production designer, James Chinlund.
Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Kurt Fuller, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman, Ed Begley, Jr.
Bob Crane became well known as the star of the comedy hit series "Hogan's Heroes." With fame and success, Crane drove headfirst into the darker, destructive side of celebrity life. He eventually teamed with a video technician who helped him document his numerous sexploits. But when his fast living got out of control, the end result was a brutal murder that remains one of Hollywood's most scandalous unsolved mysteries.
MPAA rating: R; for strong sexuality, nudity, language, some drug use and violence.
DVD.
English or French dialogue, Spanish subtitles; Closed-captioned.