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One Hour Photo (2002) 6.8
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6.8/10 from 72,275 users
Metascore: 64/100
Reviews: 575 user | 198 critic | 35 from Metacritic.com An employee of a one-hour photo lab becomes obsessed with a young suburban family. Director:Mark RomanekWriter:Mark Romanek |
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Cast
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Maya Burson
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Yoshi Araki
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Waitress
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Marion Calvert | ... |
Mrs. Von Unwerth
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David Moreland | ... |
Mr. Siskind
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Shaun P. O'Hagan | ... |
Young Father
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Amateur Porn Guy
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Repairman
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Sav-Mart Clerk
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Soccer Coach
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
Middle aged Sy Parrish works as a technician at a one hour photo lab located in a SavMart store in a suburban mall. Sy is a lonely man, never having had any friends. He knows much about his customers through the photographs they have developed. But he knows more about the Yorkin family - specifically Nina Yorkin and her adolescent son Jake Yorkin, the two in the family who drop off and pick up the family's photofinishing - than anyone else, the family about who he is obsessed. Nina's husband, Will Yorkin, is incidental to his obsession since Sy has only seen him in photographs. Sy's obsession includes fantasizing about being their favorite "Uncle Sy". He has even been making an extra set of prints for himself of all of their photographs since Jake was a newborn. After an incident at work and after Sy finds out more about the family through a set of photographs, he decides to right the injustices he sees in the only way he knows how. His actions demonstrate his true mental state. Written by Huggo
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
13 September 2002 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Retratos de una obsesión See more »Box Office
Budget:
$12,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$765,052 (Australia) (31 January 2003)Gross:
$1,557,340 (Australia) (7 February 2003)Company Credits
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Trivia
Names of other photographers also appear, including: Yoshi Araki (Nobuyoshi Araki is a very well-known Japanese photographer), Bill Owens, 'Ellen von Unwerth' (a popular German photographer), Aaron Siskind, Paul Outerbridge. See more »Goofs
When Seymour is following Nina's SUV in his Toyota Echo, the "door ajar" light is on, which probably indicates that the car is on a trailer with one or more of its doors open or even removed (although it *is* possible that he really was driving with one of the doors improperly shut - it's not unheard of, after all). See more »Quotes
Bill Owens: [finishes flicking through candid pictures of his daughter] Motherfucker!See more »
Robin Williams once again proves how good comedians can be at serious drama roles. Williams is especially good at playing creepy characters, as he has done several times in the last decade.
Here, he plays "Sy, the photo guy," a lonely employee in the photo department of a suburban Target/Walt-Mart//K-Mart-whatever who lives vicariously through a nice family, whose family pictures he has developed and printed for years. So, when Sy discovers the husband of that family is cheating, he takes it personally....and gets involved.
This was a fascinating portrait of a deranged man and a wonderfully photographed movie. The colors in here are astounding at times and the camera-work innovative with some neat angles. The suspense of the story builds and builds one gets that old film-noir feeling of impending doom.
This has a different ending, though, than most old film noirs, not exactly what the viewer might think will happen.
This is a film that, as far I know, never got much publicity, but it's a gem. Williams is outstanding in his role and the hour-and-a-half you invest in this movie flies by.