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Released
2002 · FILM

Auto Focus

A beloved 1960s TV star hides a destructive sex addiction that threatens to destroy his family and unravel his public image, leading to a tragic downfall.

“A day without sex is a day wasted.”

Directed by
Paul Schrader
Written by
Robert Graysmith, Michael Gerbosi
Runtime
104 min
BiographyCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Bob Crane, a successful TV star during the 1960s and a former actor on *Hogan's Heroes*, presents a wholesome family-man image. However, this facade conceals his life as a sex addict who records and photographs his numerous encounters with women, often with the assistance of his associate, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama explores how Crane's double life affects him and his family, and how it ultimately contributes to his death.

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Principal cast & crew: 24

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kristina BodenShot by Jeffrey GreeleyScored by Angelo BadalamentiDesigned by James Chinlund

Box Office

2002 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.1M

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$2.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $177K

Peak 11 theaters

Also known as

  • Desenfocadoes

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