[go: up one dir, main page]

    Calendario de lanzamientosTop 250 películasPelículas más popularesBuscar películas por géneroTaquilla superiorHorarios y entradasNoticias sobre películasPelículas de la India destacadas
    Programas de televisión y streamingLas 250 mejores seriesSeries más popularesBuscar series por géneroNoticias de TV
    Qué verÚltimos trailersTítulos originales de IMDbSelecciones de IMDbDestacado de IMDbGuía de entretenimiento familiarPodcasts de IMDb
    EmmysSuperheroes GuideSan Diego Comic-ConSummer Watch GuideBest Of 2025 So FarDisability Pride MonthPremios STARmeterInformación sobre premiosInformación sobre festivalesTodos los eventos
    Nacidos un día como hoyCelebridades más popularesNoticias sobre celebridades
    Centro de ayudaZona de colaboradoresEncuestas
Para profesionales de la industria
  • Idioma
  • Totalmente compatible
  • English (United States)
    Parcialmente compatible
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Lista de visualización
Iniciar sesión
  • Totalmente compatible
  • English (United States)
    Parcialmente compatible
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Usar app
  • Elenco y equipo
  • Opiniones de usuarios
  • Trivia
  • Preguntas Frecuentes
IMDbPro

Auto Focus

  • 2002
  • R
  • 1h 45min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.7/10
16 k
TU CALIFICACIÓN
Auto Focus (2002)
Home Video Trailer from Sony Pictures Classics
Reproducir trailer1:51
11 videos
99+ fotos
BiografíaCrimenCrimen VerdaderoDrama

La vida de la estrella de televisión Bob Crane y su extraña amistad con el experto en electrónica John Henry Carpenter.La vida de la estrella de televisión Bob Crane y su extraña amistad con el experto en electrónica John Henry Carpenter.La vida de la estrella de televisión Bob Crane y su extraña amistad con el experto en electrónica John Henry Carpenter.

  • Dirección
    • Paul Schrader
  • Guionistas
    • Robert Graysmith
    • Michael Gerbosi
  • Elenco
    • Greg Kinnear
    • Willem Dafoe
    • Maria Bello
  • Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro
  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.7/10
    16 k
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Paul Schrader
    • Guionistas
      • Robert Graysmith
      • Michael Gerbosi
    • Elenco
      • Greg Kinnear
      • Willem Dafoe
      • Maria Bello
    • 157Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 93Opiniones de los críticos
    • 66Metascore
  • Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro
    • Premios
      • 6 nominaciones en total

    Videos11

    Auto Focus
    Trailer 1:51
    Auto Focus
    Auto Focus
    Trailer 1:52
    Auto Focus
    Auto Focus
    Trailer 1:52
    Auto Focus
    Auto Focus Scene: Which One Do You Want?
    Clip 1:43
    Auto Focus Scene: Which One Do You Want?
    Auto Focus Scene: We Need To Talk
    Clip 2:45
    Auto Focus Scene: We Need To Talk
    Auto Focus Scene: Confessional
    Clip 2:20
    Auto Focus Scene: Confessional
    Auto Focus Scene: Everybody Loves You Bob
    Clip 1:42
    Auto Focus Scene: Everybody Loves You Bob

    Fotos104

    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    + 98
    Ver el cartel

    Elenco principal68

    Editar
    Greg Kinnear
    Greg Kinnear
    • Bob Crane
    Willem Dafoe
    Willem Dafoe
    • John Carpenter
    Maria Bello
    Maria Bello
    • Patricia Olsen…
    Rita Wilson
    Rita Wilson
    • Anne Crane
    Ron Leibman
    Ron Leibman
    • Lenny
    Bruce Solomon
    Bruce Solomon
    • Edward H. Feldman
    Michael E. Rodgers
    Michael E. Rodgers
    • Richard Dawson
    • (as Michael Rodgers)
    Kurt Fuller
    Kurt Fuller
    • Werner Klemperer
    Christopher Neiman
    Christopher Neiman
    • Robert Clary
    Lyle Kanouse
    Lyle Kanouse
    • John Banner
    DonnaMarie Recco
    DonnaMarie Recco
    • Melissa
    • (as Donnamarie Recco)
    • …
    Ed Begley Jr.
    Ed Begley Jr.
    • Mel Rosen
    Michael McKean
    Michael McKean
    • Video Executive
    Cheryl Lynn Bowers
    Cheryl Lynn Bowers
    • Cynthia Lynn
    Don McManus
    Don McManus
    • Priest
    Sarah Uhrich
    • Victoria Berry
    Amanda Niles
    • Cocktail Waitress
    Kelly Packard
    Kelly Packard
    • Dawson's Blond
    • Dirección
      • Paul Schrader
    • Guionistas
      • Robert Graysmith
      • Michael Gerbosi
    • Todo el elenco y el equipo
    • Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro

    Opiniones de usuarios157

    6.715.7K
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    Opiniones destacadas

    10waltergl

    Not for everybody, but definitely worth seeing

    I believe that this was the most severely underrated film of 2002, and it was also my personal favorite for a great year in film. Now, I sincerely doubt that many moviegoers would consider this one of the year's best, or even a great film, so this comes with a tentative recommendation. I wouldn't recommend this movie to just anybody, but I feel that fans of the prior work of Scorsese and Schrader will consider this a worthwhile endeavor. With this work Schrader continues his legacy of disturbed, distorted, doomed men whose selfishness and shallow nature ultimately lead them to great suffering as they destroy those who come close to them. Greg Kinnear's Bob Crane joins the likes of DeNiro's Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, Gene Hackman's Harry Caul in The Conversation, and Nick Nolte's Wade Whitehouse in another Schrader masterpiece, Affliction. These are sad, empty men, for whom we can only half-sympathize; we feel for them because we suffer, but we condemn them because they force themselves and others to suffer.

    The film follows the sexual exploits of Greg Kinnear as Bob Crane, the real-life star of Hogan's Heroes, who during and after the show became a full-blown sex addict, ruining two marriages and possibly sabotaging his career in the process. Willem Dafoe is John Carpenter (no, I know what you're thinking, and he's not), Crane's partner in crime who lacks Crane's charisma with women but is fed some scraps by Crane in return for his extensive knowledge of and access to video equipment. Crane's fetish is using the home video cameras to record his sexual trysts, which he reviews over and over again, looking for something that we can't see, and that he probably can't see either.

    Kinnear and Dafoe's performances alone are worth the price of admission. This is the best, boldest, and most nuanced work that Kinnear has ever done. His performance is all subtlety and detail; he introduces Crane as a regular, aw shucks family man, but as the movie progresses we gradually see the facade fall as his quiet desperation and insatiable sexual appetite begin to consume him. Not content to go over the top and yell at the top of his lungs to be effective, Kinnear instead puts on a fake smile and charms with a velvety voice while openly degrading and hitting on women. The effect is one of the most genuinely creepy performances ever committed to film. Dafoe is the perfect companion to Kinnear's subtle predator; Carpenter is a pathetic loser, easily angered and easily hurt. He gets angry, yells, and does all of the things that you've seen Dafoe do in his other portrayals of guys you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, or a lighted one, for that matter. It's effective elsewhere, and it's effective here. Together, these men form a pair so utterly joyless and shallow that just seeing them on-screen together made my stomach churn. Their dialogue is only incidental, usually reminiscing on previous sexual escapades or planning new ones, but it's the little tics, gestures, Kinnear's untouchable confidence foiled by Dafoe's insecurity, Kinnear's hidden hunger foiled by Dafoe's overt desperation, that give these scenes their resounding power.

    Not to shortchange Schrader's direction, though, which as usual is right on target for the material. He begins in a brightly colored, idealized suburban landscape, filled with all of the usual imagery you'd expect in this sort of light-hearted period and location. Then, slowly, he slides into darker territory, carrying us into the decadent seventies, breaking shots into shorter lengths, shaking the camera, depicting with his cinematography and editing the fall of his protagonist. Admittedly, the techniques Schrader employs here to depict Crane's breakdown have been used many times before, but I still found them extremely effective here.

    For the last thirty minutes of the film, I felt genuinely ill; not because I thought the projector was out of focus, as many have complained, but because Schrader and Kinnear were taking me to a dark place and immersing me in it. As I said before, this type of film is not for everybody, but for those interested in the dark side of man, this film is not to be missed. I think that at the very least, the merit of these depressing morality tales is that they provide an exact blueprint of the way not to live our lives. I suppose that showing Crane checking himself into therapy and dealing with his problems and utimately healing himself would be valuable as well, but it wouldn't make for a good film, or a true one. Some people argue against the very existence of this type of movie. My response to them is that in real life for every strong-willed person who solves their problems and triumphs over adversity, there is another loser who ultimately fails to deal with life and implodes upon their own insecurity and weakness. Until this changes, someone needs to continue making these films.
    8Quinoa1984

    it's kind of like a drug movie- actually, it really is, and an absorbing one

    After a while, I really did get more of what director Paul Schrader was aiming for with Auto Focus, the tale of males caught in some sort of odd damnation of both free will and morality. It's more like a drug movie, only here the drug being the opposite sex, and almost a singularly male ego-trip, instead of common narcotics. But it's also a very fine character study where the idea of character is taken into consideration, of how much one can seem a certain way, but then be stuck in with flaws and insecurities and, ultimately, temptation. The last of which is what Schrader puts into focus early on, but then after a while when temptation is gone, the film becomes a direct plunge into complete debauchery. And appropriately, like with all addicts, for a while nothing seems wrong at all about all of this.

    Greg Kinnear is definitely in one of his best parts here, as he plays someone who is an actor who keeps his actor-like charms off the set as well. In Hollywood, away from the confines of Connecticut, his Bob Crane lands the lead on Hogan's heroes, but can't resist the first temptations of the night-life. This comes, in an introductory way and then throughout as a tag-along/counterpart, with John Carpenter (not the director, played with the best match by Willem Dafoe of being a creep and alluring at times), who shows him the ropes and hooks him up with video equipment. But as Crane goes deeper into his sexual drives, divorces, marries again and divorces again, his acting career and his livelihood seem to slip away. The themes of being perversely the 'All-American Male' are accentuated by Kinnear's Crane in voice-over as he talks about the unbridled joys of sex, and in an interview with a Christian publication he says 'I don't...make waves'. By the last third of his story, however, into the rot of the 70s, he's lost touch with the reality of his pleasures- or rather necessities.

    Auto Focus isn't at times an easy movie to sit through; it's even cringe-worthy in a couple of scenes (notably for me was when he guest stars on a celebrity cooking show, only to keep on his sexually-driven side with audience members). Then there are other scenes (i.e. 'you have fingers up you-know-where', and the genital enhancement) where male masculinity is questioned, and in very peculiar ways between Crane and Carpenter; Crane is homophobic, but then what exactly is Carpenter's function? More than anything, less than being a friend, he becomes a kind of unintentional pusher, where the draw of going out on the town becomes a crux for both of the men. What's just as fascinating then is how Schrader aligns this with his style- the first half is mostly very slick and professional-looking, almost like an HBO bio-pic or something. But then as the characters lose a grip on everything except themselves, there's a hand-held, distorted view to everything. There's lots of nudity and on-screen sex (some blurred out, likely by MPAA request), yet Schrader gets something more shocking, in the mind at least, as Carpenter almost becomes the antagonist in a way as the story winds down (the last phone call marks this most).

    Auto Focus has the ideal of the usual biographical drama of a somebody in Hollywood who soon loses himself to becoming a nobody, but there's plenty under the surface that makes it more intriguing. Crane's two sides to his persona- the celebrity one, and the personal 'lifestyle' one- become one and the same after a while, Kinnear being able to make such a near-irredeemable person somewhat sympathetic (or at the least very watchable). And Carpenter's more truthful, emotional, and scary turn is made palatable by Dafoe's equally nuanced performance. It's not great, but it's a near-classic of the tale-of-such-and-such-star when so many don't take in what's deeper into account. A-
    9MovieMan1975

    Hogan's Hardcore Sex Hero

    Wow, is Greg Kinnear nothing short of amazing in this film or what! An incredible performance as Bob Crane, seriously virtuoso. When, towards the end, he visits his agent and is all messed up, and starts saying "sex is normal. I'm normal" - Kinnear reaches a pinnacle in his young film acting career. I have always felt that actors ascend to the next level of craft and stardom when they breakthrough with a biographical role; see - Denzel Washington in Malcom X, Ben Kingsley in Ghandi, Robert Downey Jr in Chaplin, Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. And now Greg Kinnear has made that leap with Auto Focus, a well-crafted and seductive film by Paul Schrader, Hollywood's last bastion of non-sugar coated filmmakers. Basically the story of Hollywood's most intriguing unsolved murder, Auto Focus also pulls back the curtain on "good guy" Bob Crane's lecherous and painfully discombobulated private and secret life. What is also amazing about this film is how is records the birth of video and the VCR. Bob Crane turns out to be one of the pioneer "users" of this technology. When we see or hear video, video cameras, or VCRs, we probably automatically think of home movies, recording episodes of Star Trek, or the Star Wars prequels' lack of cinematic quality. When Bob Crane heard about video cameras and VCRs, he automatically thought of sex. Though the film makes no mention of it, it is quite prophetic in showing us how the technology of video created hard-core pornography and turned it into a billion dollar industry. If you think about it, nothing has profited more from video than porno, and nothing ever relied so dearly on video like porno. Bob Crane instinctively felt this, though he never was a pornographer, so to speak; he knew that sex and video can go hand in hand. Unfortunately, this was also his downfall. Like most Paul Schrader writ or directed films, by the end you get that queasy feeling, the feeling you get at the end of Goodfellas, the feeling of sadness that this great ride is over and the feeling of emptiness and loss that all that greatness came crashing down. Bob Crane's descent into moral madness can be sickening, especially when juxtaposed with Hogan's Heroes. I almost felt the desire to shower, to cleanse myself after viewing this film. I love movies that produce reactions from me, movies that linger for days. This is one of them.
    8kcchiefstds

    Made me put my tripod in my last garage sale (it sold). Seriously, a good film, hard to watch at times, but stays with you well after it's over

    Not having had a chance to see the movie first-run, I bought the DVD and was impressed with it. The movie itself was, to borrow a phrase from another review on this site "brilliantly disturbing." Those of us who remember when Bob Crane was murdered at an apartment in Scottsdale, AZ while doing dinner theater gig; that was weird in of itself. After all who would want to kill good old Colonel Hogan? I remember watching Crane on the show, and also on talk or game shows. He seemed so together, self-assured and quick-witted. So it was even more of a shock to find out about his double-life, which this movie covers so well although it is perhaps a bit misleading in spots.

    Greg Kinnear does very good as Crane, especially in the latter scenes of the film. I think the part of Bob Crane would be somewhat difficult to play. Crane's legendary status is caught up not in his career itself, but his life other "on camera" life. A life that ended with his bludgeoning death (by blows from a camera tripod.) in June, 1978, just two weeks before what would have been his 50th birthday. Wilhem Dafoe is even better as the creepy John "Carpie" Carpenter, a video salesman who Crane meets on the set of Hogan's Heroes. Virtually all the supporting cast is also quite good. Particularly good are Kurt Fuller as Werner Klemperer/Col. Klink and Rob Leibman, who plays Crane's agent who watches helplessly as Crane's career and personal life veer out of control and plummet.

    Carpenter, an electronics expert, at the time worked for Sony, selling the new and expensive technology of videotape players to mostly celebrities or others wealthy enough to afford them. The movie takes the viewer through the mid-late 1960's as Crane and Carpenter, both sex addicts, videotape their seemingly every night exploits with women they pick up from night clubs. This is no problem for Crane who was handsome and famous. Carpenter was portrayed as a hanger-on, along for the ride, and taking Crane's "seconds." Crane, married with children is at first able to hide his double-life from his family, although his wife is suspicious of his roving eye.. As a sidebar, there are some interesting tidbits in the movie about the development of videotape in the 60's into the 70's. After the cancellation of Hogan's Heroes in 1971 and his expensive divorce (his wife found photographic evidence of his escapades), Crane's sex addition seemingly worsens. He remarries, this time to an actress who played Col Klink's secretary in the Hogan's Heroes who tells him his dalliances are okay with her. They have a son soon after they are married and even she grows weary of his being away so much with Carpenter.

    The mood of the film is in the beginning almost light-hearted, almost campy at times. . As the film continues and as Crane's personal life steadily implodes, professional life goes on the decline, a sense of darkness and desperation engulf the film. This is reinforced superbly by the hues on screen and the background music. The symbiotic relationship between Crane and Carpenter are portrayed so convincingly. Crane needed Carpenter for his video expertise and Carpenter needed Crane for the access to women. It is stunning how cavalier Crane was about picking up women and taping his sex acts, with or without their consent.

    Crane is portrayed as a nearly broke totally washed-up B or C grade celebrity at the time of his murder. This was not necessarily the case. Crane in fact had made a lot of guest appearances on television series and game shows in the early and mid-70's. He had been signed to star in an ABC Movie of the Week shortly before his murder. Crane also owned a portion of Hogan's Heroes, and had received a royalty check in 1977 of over $95,000. Doing dinner theater was more a choice he had made, and he was making amounts off dinner theater that rivaled his royalty checks. Not a fortune, but a very decent living, especially for that time. To be sure he was strained by having to support one but two families, plus his addiction. He was not the big star he was, but not in oblivion, either. Only so much can be covered in the film's 90 or so minute running time, but the notion that his professional life was in smithereens was a bit misleading. Yet, many in Hollywood knew about his exploits and it no doubt cost him in professional opportunities. There is debate on both sides whether or not Crane at the time of his murder was attempting to change his life.

    Near the end it is clear Crane had grown tired of "Carpie" and had basically told him the friendship as they knew it was coming to an end. This was just a day or so before his murder. Carpenter was arrested and tried years later for the murder but acquitted. He died in 1998, and the case officially remains unsolved.

    Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) directs so well this lurid and unflinching story. The DVD has lots of extras, including 3 different commentaries. The first by Kinnear and Dafoe, is good. Schrader's commentary is best as it offers a lot of insight into how they were able to make a relatively low-budget picture ($7 million I recall) look like they easily spent twice that amount. There is a third commentary was by the screenplay writers that I found dull. The deleted scenes are worth watching. For those interested in the Crane murder and the "whodunit" aspect there is a 45 minute feature entitled "Murder in Scottsdale" loaded with interviews and archival footage. The movie is based on Robert Graysmith's The Murder of Bob Crane, which I found to be interesting reading.
    6ccthemovieman-1

    The Weird Story Of Bob Crane

    As anyone who is reading this knows, this was the story of TV's Bob Crane, star of "Hogan's Heroes," a popular show in the 1960s. The story of Crane, the one that makes him a subject of a major motion picture of his life, are two things: 1 - the good-guy TV hero was, behind the scenes, a huge sex addict; 2 - he was murdered, with no one ever convicted of the crime. To this day, it is still unsolved.

    The movie hints very strongly that the killer was Bob Carpenter, played here by Willem Dafoe. Carpenter was a close friend of Crane's. Greg Kinnear does a credible job of portraying the television star.

    However, the part about Crane's murder is only dealt with in the final minutes of the film! That was very disappointing and I was hoping to find out something or at least be given more information. They just kind tacked this on the end of the film.

    Most of the film was about Crane's and Carpenter's escapades with women.....lots of women, beautiful and big-chested women, which you see in abundance in this film. Dafoe is the sleazy friend who introduces Crane to the beginning of the VCR age. That led to a whole bunch of sex-on-film and really whetted Crane's big sexual appetite.

    Anyway, for people who watched "Hogan's Heroes," and there were plenty, this is a bio of him and perhaps, for those who know nothing about his death, who killed him.

    Argumento

    Editar

    ¿Sabías que…?

    Editar
    • Trivia
      The leather jacket that Greg Kinnear wears while playing Bob Crane in the Los héroes de Hogan (1965) scenes of this movie is the one that the real Crane actually wore during the filming of that TV series. Crane's son Robert David Crane loaned the jacket to Kinnear for this movie. Prior to the original "Hogan's Heroes" show, Frank Sinatra wore this exact same jacket in El expreso de Von Ryan (1965).
    • Errores
      There is a glimpse of the famous Capitol Records building painted silver. At the time of the film, it was actually painted black to resemble a stack of records.
    • Citas

      Bob Crane: I think it's perfect for me. I mean, this character Hogan, he's quick on his toes, he's hip, he's a con artist. I don't wanna jinx it, but I think it's what I've been working toward my whole career!

      Anne Crane: Really? You've been working towards a Holocaust comedy?

      Bob Crane: Ann!

      Anne Crane: What, Bob?

      Bob Crane: Please, not in front of the children! They look up to me!

      Anne Crane: They're small. They look up to everyone.

    • Versiones alternativas
      The following deleted scenes appear on the DVD:
      • Victoria finds Bob's body.
      • Hogan's Heroes Montage
      • Bob unloads drums and some dirty magazines fall out.
      • Anne and Bob talking by the pool.
      • Anne in the darkroom.
    • Conexiones
      Featured in Auto Focus: Featurette (2002)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Snap!
      Written by Paul Schrader and Angelo Badalamenti

      Performed by David Johansen (as Buster Poindexter)

      Produced by Brian Koonin

    Selecciones populares

    Inicia sesión para calificar y agrega a la lista de videos para obtener recomendaciones personalizadas
    Iniciar sesión

    Preguntas Frecuentes

    • How long is Auto Focus?
      Con tecnología de Alexa

    Detalles

    Editar
    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 16 de mayo de 2003 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Sitio oficial
      • Official site (United States)
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • Autofocus
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos
    • Productoras
      • Focus Puller Inc.
      • Good Machine
      • Propaganda Films
    • Ver más créditos de la compañía en IMDbPro

    Taquilla

    Editar
    • Presupuesto
      • USD 7,000,000 (estimado)
    • Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • USD 2,063,196
    • Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • USD 123,761
      • 20 oct 2002
    • Total a nivel mundial
      • USD 2,704,951
    Ver la información detallada de la taquilla en IMDbPro

    Especificaciones técnicas

    Editar
    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 45 minutos
    • Color
      • Color
    • Mezcla de sonido
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.85 : 1

    Contribuir a esta página

    Sugiere una edición o agrega el contenido que falta
    Auto Focus (2002)
    Principales brechas de datos
    By what name was Auto Focus (2002) officially released in India in English?
    Responda
    • Ver más datos faltantes
    • Obtén más información acerca de cómo contribuir
    Editar página

    Más para explorar

    Visto recientemente

    Habilita las cookies del navegador para usar esta función. Más información.
    Obtener la aplicación de IMDb
    Inicia sesión para obtener más accesoInicia sesión para obtener más acceso
    Sigue a IMDb en las redes sociales
    Obtener la aplicación de IMDb
    Para Android e iOS
    Obtener la aplicación de IMDb
    • Ayuda
    • Índice del sitio
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • Licencia de datos de IMDb
    • Sala de prensa
    • Publicidad
    • Trabaja con nosotros
    • Condiciones de uso
    • Política de privacidad
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, una compañía de Amazon

    © 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.