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Genres:
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Biography /
Crime /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Paul Schrader
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Actors:
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Rita Wilson,
Bruce Solomon,
Michael E. Rodgers,
Christopher Neiman,
Donnamarie Recco,
Cheryl Lynn Bowers,
Greg Kinnear,
Willem Dafoe,
Maria Bello,
Ron Leibman,
Kurt Fuller,
Lyle Kanouse,
Ed Begley Jr.,
Michael McKean,
Don McManus
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Duration:
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105 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)93.5
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Plot Summary:
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AUTO Centre is the story of Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear), who was the star of the American video receiver series Hogan's Heroes in the 1960s. Before he achieved that particular reputation, Crane was a popular announce talk display host in Hollywood. His telly pan out brought him a level of visibility and blot that he turned undeviatingly into procreant opportunity. Gallivanting with sleazy audiovisual salesman John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe), Crane built a life as a desperately addicted shagging zealot. As the first home video cameras were invented, Carpenter and Crane began a prolific pastime of ... coercing girls to look on tape while engaging in offensive sexual acts. The more intensely obsessed Crane became with his routine, the less his acting career mattered. He divorced his wife, allowing her safe keeping of their two children, and remarried, having another son, exclusively to break-up again. Meanwhile, his relentless sexual exploits became increasingly impersonal and mean-sparkling. His openly sculpture suffered as he shamelessly made garish, sexualized remarks and got a reputation for openly displaying photographs of himself receiving oral coupling. Paul Schrader's powerful, irrevocably gear, and darkly disturbing film makes a 180-standing transition as its mystery rolls out. What begins as a tickled pink, colorful, naive portrayal of the entertainment vigour becomes the nightmare of people man's disintegration in the confronting of persuading, money, and power.
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Great
A gruesome study of a man's descent from happy family Mr America into a sex-crazed porn junkie which, if made by Cronenberg would probably have Hogan inserting porn videos into Willem Dafoe's head....... or something. As it is, Schrader makes it a stylized study of a man who can't accept his seriously extracurricular activites are actually not quite normal. A superbly filmed & lit tale of the dream gone bad. It reminds me of films like "Parents", but without the surrealism. Willem Dafoe is superbly creepy as Hogan's hanger-on, who, when the popularity dries up - turns on him.
Auto Focus
In Auto Focus, the strangely wonderful and weirdly touching new film from Paul Schrader, the comedy and the tragedy keep getting mixed up. The film is based on the rise and lurid fall of the late Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear), the television actor whose great claim to fame was lobbing jokes at the world's dumbest Nazis in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
By all accounts Crane was as bland and unmemorable as the character that made him famous, save for the fact that like Hogan he was also a captive of sorts. Instead of a POW camp, Crane was locked inside his addictions--to sex, to video technology, to fame.
Like a lot of Americans, he was hooked on celebrity, the difference being that the famous face that made him smile the most was his own.
Crane i...
Auto Focus
Based on the existence and massacre of Bob Crane, star of Hogan's Heroes, this cautionary untruth of sleazy, voyeuristic masculinity lacks resonance extreme the US, where Crane was unknown, and under no circumstances quite manages to convey a wider significance.
Auto Focus
Imprudent sexaholic Bob Crane (Kinnear) came to superiority as the eminent of the '60s TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and died,...
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