One Hour Photo
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Mark Romanek |
| Produced by | Christine Vachon |
| Written by | Mark Romanek |
| Starring |
Robin Williams Connie Nielsen Michael Vartan Gary Cole Eriq La Salle |
| Music by |
Reinhold Heil Johnny Klimek |
| Cinematography | Jeff Cronenweth |
| Edited by | Jeffrey Ford |
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| Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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Release date
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September 13, 2002 |
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Running time
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96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | $52.2 million |
One Hour Photo is a 2002 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, and Eriq La Salle. Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, One Hour Photo received positive reviews from film critics, with praise for Romanek's writing and Cronenweth's cinematography, while Williams' against-type performance received universal critical acclaim, earning him a Saturn Award for Best Actor.
Seymour "Sy" Parrish (Robin Williams) is a photo technician at a one-hour photo in a big-box store. He's a perfectionist with a fawning appreciation of his customers and work and every day he labors to ensure the store's customers get the best quality photos possible. His work is his life, as he has no one and nothing to go home to at the end of each day; he spends his evenings sitting alone in his barren living room, watching television. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family: husband Will (Michael Vartan), wife Nina (Connie Nielsen), and their son Jake (Dylan Smith). He has developed their photos for many years and is obsessed with the family, using his access to their photos to gain an extremely detailed understanding of their personal lives.
Sy secretly makes his own copies of the Yorkins' photos from the film negatives and used the photos to cover an entire wall in his apartment. He fantasizes about being a member of their family and sharing in the love he assumes they feel. He is painfully shy and socially inept, however, and his attempts to become closer to the family are gently rebuffed. Sy eventually manages to spark a connection with Nina when he pretends to be interested in a book that he saw her purchase. Nina asks Sy personal questions about his life, realizing that he lives a solitary existence, something only Jake had considered previously. The next day, his boss Bill (Gary Cole) fires him after learning that Sy's machine has printed many more prints than have been ordered and paid for. While inspecting his photos for the last time, Sy realizes that Will is having an extramarital affair with a family friend, Maya, and his idyllic conception of the Yorkins as the "perfect" family is shattered. Sy secretly places photos of Will and his mistress, Maya Burson (Erin Daniels), into a packet of photos that Nina was scheduled to pick up at SavMart, in order to make her aware of her husband's infidelity.
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