HO-GAN!! You're A PERV!!
When this movie came out, I heard there was a "breast montage" featured in the movie, which struck my interest cause I like breasts, and honestly, what man doesn't? Oddly enough, Bob Crane was a breastman also.
"Auto Focus" tells the story about one Robert "Bob" Crane played by Greg Kinnear, but the story starts in the middle somewhere. Bob is a radio DJ in LA in 1964. His agent Lenny found a part for him. Some stupid comedy show about a POW camp in Nazi Germany. Bob is up to play the lead, one Col. Hogan. Bob think it's a dumb idea and almost doesn't do it until he reads the script and finds it funny.
Then he meets Willam Dafoe's character, John Carpenter. I'm pretty sure it isn't the John Carpenter who's responsible for "Halloween". Pretty sure. Anyway, John is into "new" hi-tech gadgets like hi-fi radios. He introduces Bob to a device called VTR, Video Tape Recorder, which is pretty much a giant ass version of a video camera.
At night, Bob plays drums at "strip clubs". I put quotes around "strip clubs" cause they're not like strip clubs you and I think of. These are "classy" strip clubs that, according to the movie, old couples go to to celebrate 50th anniversaries.
Bob is becoming somewhat of a well known celebrity, which John takes advantage of by picking up chicks. Once at John's "pad", John picks the girl he wants and they "do their thang". Bob, who is faithfully married to his wife Anne and has two children, AND is a church going Christian, doesn't play into such games as easy...
Oh wait, he caved in and banged another girl. Oh well.
And that's pretty much what happens in the movie from that point on. Bob cheats on his wife with a slew of women, and they sort of hint around that John might be gay, cause he gets a real thrill out of videotaping Bob having sex with a girl.
And Bob takes a liking to this sex stuff and keeps shitloads of pornographic pictures hidden in his garage. The difference between your porno stash and his is that he is actually featured in the porno stash. More then once. So his wife finds out and as you guessed, divorces him.
But Bob's doing ok, he's banging a girl that's on "Hogan's Heroes", named Patti. Patti is pretty open to Bob being a "swinger" and they get married. Then, well...
"Hogan's Heroes" gets cancelled. And Bob is up to his eyeballs in debt. So his only choice is to start doing dinner theater. And when he isn't doing that, he's filming pornos with John and any girls they pick up at bars.
Lenny tells Bob that Disney wants him to start in a movie called "Superdad" but then word gets out that Bob likes to go to strip clubs and grope women, and well, Mickey kinda frowns upon that. But they go ahead and make the movie anyway and, well, it flops.
And now even Patti is getting sick of Bob's obsession with porn and women and divorces him too. So now it's just Bob and John out crusin' for chicks, and when they're not doing that, they watch back their videotapes of them having sex and jerking off together. Really. This was in the movie. Seriously.
Bob is really becoming a has-been and is just making a big fool of himself when he goes on some cooking show and tries to grope a big breasted woman in the audience. Realizing he probably should knock it off, he tells John it's over and goes to sleep. Later that night, a shadowed figure comes into Bob's room and hits him repeatedly in the head with a tripod. As a result, Bob wakes up dead the next morning.
His murder is unsolved, even to this day. People thought John did it but he got aquitted cause of lack of evidence and cops screwing things up and whatnot. Kind of a bummer, really.
So it's interesting to note that when you watch old "Hogan Heroes" reruns, that Hogan is really thinking dirty thoughts about the German secretary. Oh, I forgot to mention. Kurt Fuller played the guy who played Col. Klink and he does an ok job. And there was a somewhat surreal scene in the movie where Bob Crane had a strange day dream where he's really a POW and in Klink's office and suddenly Patti comes in and Klink and the fat dude (Whatever his name was, I never watched Hogan's Heroes) start having sex with her, while Bob watches, and is getting support from Anne AND his kids. I think David Lynch directed this scene.
But overall it was a very interesting movie, and yes there is a breast montage, but it isn't as great as it sounds. It's mainly in fuzzy black and white and some of the women are clothed. But still, there are a lot, and I do mean A LOT of naked chicks in this movie. So if you're into that kind of thing, this is your movie.
Perv.
4 stars.
"Auto Focus" on IMDb.com:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298744/