Director: Paul Schrader

Writer: Michael Gerbosi

Based on a book: The Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith

Keywords: Drama, Biography, Kinky

Biopic about Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ed Begley, Jr.	Actor	16-Sep-1949		Meet the Applegates
Maria Bello	Actor	18-Apr-1967		Dr. Anna Del Amico on ER
Willem Dafoe	Actor	22-Jul-1955		Last Temptation of Christ
Kevin Kilner	Actor	3-May-1958		Earth: Final Conflict
Greg Kinnear	Actor	17-Jun-1963		Talk Soup
Ron Leibman	Actor	11-Oct-1937		Kaz
Michael McKean	Actor	17-Oct-1947		This Is Spinal Tap, SNL
Kelly Packard	Actor	29-Jan-1975		April Giminski on Baywatch
Joseph D. Reitman	Actor	25-May-1968		Actor/Husband of Shannon Elizabeth
Rita Wilson	Actor	26-Oct-1956		Runaway Bride

REVIEWS

Review by John F. Szczubelek (posted on 17-Feb-2005)

Auto Focus has been wrongly panned by critics who expected something warmer from director Paul Schrader. This is the guy who, in a paperback counterpart to the screenplay for Taxi Driver, wrote, "What's a heart without a head, a head without a cunt, cunt, cunt, without a heart?" If the thought of Bob Crane (played brilliantly by Greg Kinnear) capitalizing on his fame as Colonel Hogan for the purpose of bedding hippie chicks, strippers and waitresses during the heyday of the sexual revolution is not your bag, man, then rent a Disney flick and drink some chocolate milk. This movie captures the sexual abandon of the era like no other film. Willem Dafoe is chilling as Crane's bell-bottom and choker-wearing sidekick "Carpy." Watch this movie a few times. It will grow on you.

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