Auto Focus
Directed by	Paul Schrader
Produced by	Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Brian Oliver
Written by	Michael Gerbosi
Starring	Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson
Music by	Angelo Badalamenti
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release date(s)	October 18, 2002 (limited)
Running time	105 min. Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946 in Grand Rapids Michigan) is an American Screenwriter and Film director Scott Alexander (born 1976 is a British millionaire and Nouveau riche Socialite often quoted as being "the most vain man in Britain" Alexander is frequently Scott Alexander (b June 16 1963, Los Angeles California) and Larry Karaszewski (b Brian Darnell Oliver (born June 1 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is a retired American professional Basketball player Gregory Kinnear (born June 17, 1963) is an Academy Award -nominated American Actor and Television personality, who William J "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is a three-time Academy Award -nominated American Film and stage Maria Elana Bello (born April 18 1967 is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. Rita Wilson (born October 26, 1956) is an American Film and stage actress and producer. Angelo Badalamenti (born March 22 1937 is an Italian-American Composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for movie director David Lynch, notably Sony Pictures Classics is one of two specialty film divisions of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the other being Screen Gems (which produces more genre-specific fare Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$7 million USD
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Auto Focus is a feature film adaptation of the book The Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been Robert Graysmith (born September 17, 1942) is a True-crime author of the books Zodiac; Zodiac Unmasked the Identity of America's It tells the story of actor Bob Crane, an affable radio show host and amateur drummer who found success on Hogan's Heroes, a popular television comedy series about a prisoner of war camp during World War II, for which he is best known. Robert Edward Crane ( July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978) was an American Disc jockey and Emmy Award -nominated Hogan's Heroes is a American Television Situation comedy that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4 World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

Plot

The 2002 movie deeply delves into Crane's secret personal life, focusing on his relationship with John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert involved with the development of the VCR. The year 2002 in film involved some significant events The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, John Henry Carpenter (1928 was accused of Crane's 1978 murder PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT THIS IS A GENERAL ARTICLE ABOUT VCRs/VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDERS Encouraged by Carpenter and enabled by his expertise, Crane - a church-going, non-drinking family man - became a sex addict obsessed with sleeping with as many women as possible and recording those encounters with video and photographic equipment, usually with Carpenter participating. Auto Focus depicts Crane's life from his sitcom success through his post-Hogan's Heroes efforts to sustain a viable career - mostly in dinner theatre - until his murder which, to this day, remains unsolved. Dinner theater (sometimes called dinner and a show) is a form of Entertainment that combines a Restaurant Meal with a staged play. Although Carpenter was tried and acquitted of the crime, he remained the subject of suspicion even after his death in 1998.

Trivia

• Crane's second son, Scotty, publicly disapproved of the film; his oldest son, Bob Crane Jr. , had a cameo role in the movie.
• The DVD release features a 50-minute documentary, Murder in Scottsdale, delving into the initial murder investigation and subsequent revival some 15 years later. DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality
• Writer Robert Graysmith also wrote another true crime book about the Zodiac serial killer in San Francisco, California. Robert Graysmith (born September 17, 1942) is a True-crime author of the books Zodiac; Zodiac Unmasked the Identity of America's The Zodiac Killer is a Serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city
• This film was banned in Malaysia. For nearly the entire History of film production certain films have been either Boycotted by political and religious groups or literally banned by a Regime For the biogeographical region see Malesia Malaysia (məˈleɪʒə or /məˈleɪziə/ is a country that consists of thirteen states and
• Two scenes were altered to gain an R-rating, an oral sex scene viewed on a video, and several shots of explicit sex viewed later on a video. These scenes are blurred in the U. S. release. European DVDs have the unblurred versions of these scenes. Additionally, U. S. posters had to have the word 'sex' obscured from the sentence "A day without sex is a day wasted. "

References

External links

• Auto Focus at the Internet Movie Database