One Hour Photo

One Hour Photo may be more civilized than Taxi Driver, but it's just as effectively creepy. Like Martin Scorsese's classic, this riveting character study is so compassionately detailed that we sympathize with poor Sy Parrish (Robin Williams) even as he grows increasingly unhinged. Sy is a meticulously dedicated one-hour-photo technician, but the pictures he processes--particularly those belonging to the successful, seemingly happy family of Nina and Will Yorkin (Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan)--turn into the unhealthiest kind of obsession. The Yorkins' snapshots portray a joyful life that the lonely and traumatized Sy could never hope to achieve, and he sinks deeper and deeper into the solace they bring... until evidence of infidelity turns him into a seething crucible of righteous indignation. Propelled by Williams's flawless escape from the feel-good schmaltz of earlier roles, One Hour Photo is a simmering tour de force, tempered by writer-director Mark Romanek for maximum psychological impact. --Jeff Shannon

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upc: 0024543062165
title: One Hour Photo
theatricalDate: 13-09-2002
stars: Robin Williams Connie Nielsen Michael Vartan Dylan Smith (III) Erin Daniels Paul H. Kim Lee Garlington Gary Cole Marion Calvert David Moreland Shaun P. O'Hagan Jim Rash Nick Searcy Dave Engfer Jimmy Shubert Eriq La Salle Clark Gregg Andrew A. Rolfes Carmen Mormino Izrel Katz
purchase date: 07-09-2006
publisher: 20th Century Fox
published: 18-02-2003
price: $14.98
net Rating: 4
MPAA Rating: R
minutes: 96
last lookup time: 179363008
genre: Suspense Mystery
fullTitle: One Hour Photo (Widescreen Edition)
features: Anamorphic Closed-captioned Color Dolby Widescreen NTSC 1.85:1
director: Mark Romanek
currentValue: $1.19
created: 179363008
country: us
aspect: DVD
asin: B00007976T