Auto Focus (2002)

Greg Kinnear is quite good as Bob Crane, genial family man and local radio celebrity, whose life changes drastically when he lands the lead on Hogan's Heroes. Although there are a couple of good scenes of Crane trying not to fall too far into a life he seems to know he doesn't want: confessing/rationalizing to his priest in a coffee shop and his horror at finding that his buddy was the one fingering him during a "group grope," I have to say that the transformation from mass-attending grapefruit juice drinker to obsessed pornographer seemed to just happen. Maybe that's the way this stuff usually goes, but it still felt as though I was missing too much of the story.

Basically, it's a well-made film that feels rather hollow.

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