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Crime, Thriller
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (2002) 106 mins R

6.6 (6,168 votes)
"Two thumbs up, way up!" -Ebert & Roeper

Academy Award nominees Greg Kinnear (As Good As It Gets) and Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire, Spider-Man) star in a provocative drama about the colorful life and mysterious death of legendary television actor Bob Crane.

Bob Crane (Kinnear) became well known as the star of the hit comedy series Hogan's Heroes. With an abundance of fame, wealth and success, Crane dove headfirst into the darker, destructive side of the celebrity lifestyle. He eventually teamed up with a video technician (Dafoe) who helped him to systematically document his copious sexploits with beautiful young women. But when the fast living and hard loving got out of control, the end result was a brutal murder that remains one of the most scandalous unsolved mysteries in Hollywood history....

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Cast and Crew
Willem Dafoe  ......  John Carpenter
Greg Kinnear  ......  Bob Crane
Rita Wilson  ......  Anne Crane
Ron Leibman  ......  Lenny
Maria Bello  ......  Patricia Olson / Patrica Crane / Sigrid Valdis
Bruce Solomon  ......  Edward H. Feldman
Director  .....  Paul Schrader
Producer  .....  Alicia Allain; Patrick Dollard; Scott Alexander
Writer  .....  Michael Gerbosi; Robert Graysmith
Notes
Goofs:
Anachronisms: When Crane's photographs are spread across the floor, we see small black lettering on the back of each print. This black lettering is a computer printout of exposure information, used by photo lab machines only since the 1980s, long after the movie's setting in the late '60s/early '70s. (more)

Trivia:
The bald actor who plays a reporter interviewing Crane about midway through the film is Crane's real son, Bob Crane Jr. (Robert David Crane). (more)

Filming Locations:
Arizona, USA (more)

Quotes:
Bob Crane: Mel, I thought you were a fellow entertainer.
Mel Rosen: I'm also a Jew.
Bob Crane: It's the same thing!
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Awards:
3 nominations (more)