Auto Focus (2002)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 156
Fresh: 113 | Rotten: 43
Kinnear and Dafoe help make this downward spiral of one man's life a compelling watch.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 11
Kinnear and Dafoe help make this downward spiral of one man's life a compelling watch.
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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
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Greg Kinnear
Bob Crane -
Willem Dafoe
Johnny Carpenter -
Rita Wilson
Anne Crane -
Maria Bello
Patricia Crane -
Ron Leibman
Lenny -
Kurt Fuller
Werner Klemperer/Klink -
Ed Begley Jr
Mel Rosen -
Michael E. Rodgers
Richard Dawson -
Michael McKean
Video Executive -
Christopher Neiman
Clary -
Bruce Solomon
Feldman -
Lyle Kanouse
John Banner/Schultz -
Nikita Ager
Julie
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Schrader really isn't interested in Crane except as the straw man for his moral lessons about sin and sexuality and the nature of celebrity.
Top CriticHow do you make a movie with depth about a man who lacked any? On the evidence before us, the answer is clear: Not easily and, in the end, not well enough.
Admirably unconventional film.
It never answers the key question: Why should we care?
Kinnear is brilliant here ... and he's matched by Dafoe.
Watching this cold, detached movie, you never get the sense that Schrader cares one whit about Crane or is even curious about understanding the compulsions that wrecked his marriage and career and eventually cost him his life.
A repetitive and disappointingly shallow look at what is in fact an intriguing Hollywood mystery.
Out of focus.
Sempre fascinante, o filme traz Greg Kinnear e Willem Dafoe em performances absolutamente impecáveis.
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.
Another probing case history of male pathology from one of the most consistently interesting American film-makers alive.
Given its lurid subject matter, the film is astoundingly bland.
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.
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