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Auto Focus: Release, Cast & Plot

Auto Focus is a 2002 American biographical drama film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe. The screenplay by Michael Gerbosi is based on Robert Graysmith's book The Murder of Bob Crane (1993).

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Auto Focus topic overview

The analysis highlights Release, Cast and Plot as prominent areas in the source structure around Auto Focus.

Related topics
68
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
73
Extracted relationships
42
Concept neighborhoods
28
Bridge connections
73

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Release · 29 topics
Cast · 18 topics
Overview · 10 topics
Plot · 6 topics
Production · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Based on
The Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith
Box office
$2.7 million
Budget
$7 million
Cinematography
Jeffrey Greeley · Fred Murphy
Country
United States
Directed by
Paul Schrader

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Release

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Auto Focus connects Entity context

The extracted context around Auto Focus shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Auto Focus → Dafoe, Kinnear, Mr, On, On Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, Schrader, Scott, The, The New York Times, There, To, When Another extracted example is Auto Focus → Alicia Allain, Brian Oliver, Pat Dollard, Scott Alexander Larry Karaszewski, Todd Rosken. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Auto Focus

Top relations

related to Critical reception · 13
Auto Focus → Dafoe, Kinnear, Mr, On, On Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, Schrader, Scott, The, The New York Times, There, To, When
Produced by · 5
Auto Focus → Alicia Allain, Brian Oliver, Pat Dollard, Scott Alexander Larry Karaszewski, Todd Rosken
Starring · 5
Auto Focus → Greg Kinnear, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson, Ron Leibman, Willem Dafoe
Cinematography · 2
Auto Focus → Fred Murphy, Jeffrey Greeley
Production companies · 2
Auto Focus → Good Machine, Propaganda Films
related to External links · 2
Auto Focus → IMDbAuto Focus, Rotten Tomatoes
Based on · 1
Auto Focus → The Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith
Box office · 1
Auto Focus → $2.7 million
Budget · 1
Auto Focus → $7 million
Country · 1
Auto Focus → United States

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

crane carpenter film schrader auto focus murder bob kinnear scotty paul dafoe based john crane's greg willem michael release sex

Auto Focus relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 42 structured relationships around Auto Focus. Examples in this analysis include Auto Focus → Based on → The Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith and Auto Focus → Box office → $2.7 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Auto FocusBased onThe Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith1.00infobox
Auto FocusBox office$2.7 million1.00infobox
Auto FocusBudget$7 million1.00infobox
Auto FocusCinematographyJeffrey Greeley1.00infobox
Auto FocusCinematographyFred Murphy1.00infobox
Auto FocusCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Auto FocusDirected byPaul Schrader1.00infobox
Auto FocusDistributed bySony Pictures Classics1.00infobox
Auto FocusEdited byKristina Boden1.00infobox
Auto FocusLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Auto FocusMusic byAngelo Badalamenti1.00infobox
Auto FocusProduced byScott Alexander Larry Karaszewski1.00infobox
Auto FocusProduced byAlicia Allain1.00infobox
Auto FocusProduced byPat Dollard1.00infobox
Auto FocusProduced byBrian Oliver1.00infobox
Auto FocusProduced byTodd Rosken1.00infobox
Auto FocusProduction companiesPropaganda Films1.00infobox
Auto FocusProduction companiesGood Machine1.00infobox
Auto FocusRelease dateOctober 18, 2002 (2002-10-18) (United States)1.00infobox
Auto FocusRunning time105 minutes1.00infobox
Auto FocusStarringGreg Kinnear1.00infobox
Auto FocusStarringWillem Dafoe1.00infobox
Auto FocusStarringRita Wilson1.00infobox
Auto FocusStarringMaria Bello1.00infobox
Auto FocusStarringRon Leibman1.00infobox
Auto FocusWritten byMichael Gerbosi1.00infobox
Auto Focusis a2002 American biographical drama film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Auto Focus bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Focus, Paul and Directed. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Auto Focus
    • Focus
    • Paul
    • Directed
    • Starring
    • Henry
    • Director
    • Greg
    • Willem
    • Bob
    • Dafoe
    • John
    • Kinnear
  • auto focus
    • Focus
    • Paul
    • Directed
    • Starring
    • Henry
    • Director
    • Greg
    • Willem
    • Bob
    • Dafoe
    • John
    • Kinnear
  • paul schrader
    • Schrader
    • Willem
    • Starring
    • Release
    • Director
    • Greg
    • Based
    • Kinnear
    • Murder
    • Scotty
    • Production
    • Gerbosi
  • greg kinnear
    • Kinnear
    • Willem
    • Starring
    • Henry
    • Michael
    • Schrader
    • Bob
    • John
    • Paul
    • Life
    • Man
    • Production
  • willem dafoe
    • Willem
    • Kinnear
    • Greg
    • Paul
    • Directed
    • Starring
    • Critics
    • Henry
    • Release
    • Schrader
    • Life
    • Michael
  • bob crane
    • Henry
    • Michael
    • John
    • Gerbosi
    • Carpenter
    • Robert
    • Greg
    • Willem
    • Crane
    • Dafoe
    • Scotty
    • Focus
  • john henry carpenter
    • John
    • Michael
    • Willem
    • Crane
    • Production
    • Kinnear
    • Henry
    • Starring
    • Crane's
    • Sex
    • Scotty
    • Murder
  • toronto international film festival
    • Chicago
    • Critics
    • Dafoe
    • New
    • Release
    • San
    • One
    • Willem
    • Based
    • Paul
    • Focus
    • Kinnear

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Auto Focus, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Auto Focus with Release. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Auto FocusRelease · splits 44 ⟂ 30
Auto FocusCast · splits 55 ⟂ 19
Auto FocusOverview · splits 63 ⟂ 11
Auto FocusPlot · splits 67 ⟂ 7
Auto FocusProduction · splits 68 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Auto Focus

Nodes74
Edges73
Triples42
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027027
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Auto Focus to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Release, Cast & Plot, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Auto Focus · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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