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Auto Focus

Posted on May 18, 2003December 31, 2020 by Village Vidiot

  “Auto Focus,” May 18, 2003 (2002), DVD.    This is a very dark, depressing, and sad look at Bob Crane’s (Col Hogan of Hogan’s Heroes) decline into sexual addiction and the need to be filled in the act with the help of John Carpenter, a video freak and salesman who facilitates Crane’s relentless search for young adoring women. Coming out of a straightlaced Catholic background, he found his new-found fame brought him women galore anxious to sleep with him. He takes the low road to debauchery, filmed by Carpenter. But when his show ends after 6 years, he slides into dinner theatrical marginality and renown for filming his sexual dalliances. He is, this film suggests, killed by Carpenter when Crane decided to try to straighten out his life. A sad and, at times, painful film. Sometimes funny, but fascinating. Rather like watching a car wreck. Good work by Greg Kinnear as Crane and Willem Dafoe as Carpenter. Ron Liebman is fine as his agent. A quirky cameo by Crane’s son as an interviewer from a Christian magazine. A very touching. moment when he rather pathetically and sincerely asks one of his first flings if they can make love with the lights on!

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