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Title: Bizarre.
Review: This is a very carefully made film (as it has to be to drum up sympathy for Bob Crane). But ultimately its just another movie about a guy who was so likeable we're supposed to overlook everything else. This is the same premise as Catch Me If You Can--a much more enjoyable movie. In both cases these guys are charming but totally sleezy.Had he not died in the way he did, brutal and unsolved, no one would even think of making a movie about him. Mild controversy aside, Hogan's Heros is as memorable as My Mother The Car.I love Greg Kinnear but he neither looks nor sounds like Bob Crane. None of the other players fit either, with the possible exception of the guy who plays Werner Klemperer. The Richard Dawson character is totally wrong and Wilem Dafoe doesn't seem like he even lived in that era.Oh by the way, there's nothing funny in this film. How could there be? As for sympathy If Bob Crane ultimately died of a (fulfilled) craving for sex, I hope to go the same way.
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