Auto Focus

Auto Focus is a 2002 American biographical film directed by Paul Schrader, starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe. The screenplay by Michael Gerbosi is based on Robert Graysmith's book The Murder of Bob Crane (1993).

Auto Focus tells a dramatized story of actor Bob Crane, an affable radio show host and amateur drummer who found success on Hogan's Heroes, a popular television sitcom, and his dramatic descent into the underbelly of Hollywood after the series was cancelled, and after forming a friendship with John Henry Carpenter.

As of June 2015, Crane's murder remains unsolved. Although Carpenter was tried and acquitted of the crime, he remains the subject of suspicion even after his death in 1998.

Plot

Disc-jockey-turned-actor Bob Crane develops a secret personal life, focusing on his relationship with John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert involved with the nascent home video market.

Encouraged by Carpenter and enabled by his expertise, Crane — a church-going, clean-cut family man — becomes a sex addict obsessed with women and with recording his encounters using video and photographic equipment, usually with Carpenter participating.

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