Auto Focus (2002)
73 %
Reviews Counted: 154 Fresh: 112 Rotten:42 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Consensus:
Kinnear and Dafoe help make this downward spiral of one man's life a compelling watch.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Theatrical Release: Oct 18, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $1,818,622
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman
Director: Paul Schrader
Screenwriter: Trevor Macy, Michael Gerbosi
Producer: Todd Rosken
Composer: Angelo Badalementi
Screenwriter: Trevor Macy, Michael Gerbosi
Producer: Todd Rosken
Composer: Angelo Badalementi
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05/26/06
Sempre fascinante, o filme traz Greg Kinnear e Willem Dafoe em performances absolutamente impecáveis.
04/28/04
See it for Kinnear's performance, see it for a supreme depiction of the time, but don't go in expecting Citizen Kane. More like Deep Throat.
03/04/04
Another probing case history of male pathology from one of the most consistently interesting American film-makers alive.
10/19/03
Crane's story is a modern Hollywood tragedy, and Schrader and Kinnear treat it with the utmost respect, creating a film that is both touching and bittersweet.
09/06/03
..interesting for the way it reveals what the advent of the videotape in the '70s has done to all of us. Like the Internet in the '90s, it has helped make what's private public – for better or worse.
07/29/03
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07/19/03
Auto Focus is a tense and gripping film, filled with surprises and overt contradictions of the human condition. It’s also a terrifying look at a man who loses his sense of himself and is caught in his own net of deceit as he self destructs.
07/01/03
Schrader weaves American sexual mores, advances in video technology, dangerous impulses and awareness of self into one compelling thread. The movie has a precise vision — funny, sad and profound all at once.
06/26/03
It's a compelling watch, but moves no further than being an exploratory film about Crane's demise due to his sex addiction.
04/07/03
This is not a masterpiece; Schrader wrote a better film about career disintegration and the pathetic sexual lives of insecure men, and that film was "Raging Bull". But the movie is powerful.
04/02/03
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