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One Hour Photo

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One Hour Photo (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 178 Fresh: 144  Rotten:34 Average Rating: 7/10
 
Consensus: Robin Williams is every effective in this creepy thriller. Robin Williams is every effective in this creepy thriller. more
 
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
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Viewed through our photographs, it would seem we have lived a joyous, leisurely existence. Sy Parrish (Robin Williams), who makes this observation, adversely leads a lonely life, operating a photo lab in a SavMart department store. He escapes his dreary reality through the family photos of... [More]
Viewed through our photographs, it would seem we have lived a joyous, leisurely existence. Sy Parrish (Robin Williams), who makes this observation, adversely leads a lonely life, operating a photo lab in a SavMart department store. He escapes his dreary reality through the family photos of Nancy Yorkin (Connie Nielsen) and her family. His admiration of the Yorkins becomes an obsession, as he fashions himself as Uncle Sy to little Jake (Dylan Smith). Sy's judgment becomes impaired by his unhealthy interest, causing him to lose his job of 11 years. As his final day approaches, Sy develops photographs revealing an indiscretion on the part of Mr. Yorkin (Michael Vartan). The unstable Sy now develops a disturbing, calculated plan to instill family values to the Yorkin clan. Much of ONE HOUR PHOTO takes place inside a department store similar to a Wal-Mart, bordered in an icy blue. This cold atmosphere creates a solitary framework for the disturbed photo developer Sy Parrish, played with a melancholic detachment by Williams, working here against type. Director Mark Romanek (STATIC) has created a thriller with little violence. Instead, it is permeated with an uncomfortable fear emanating from its damaged protagonist. [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, Eriq La Salle

Director: Mark Romanek
Screenwriter: Mark Romanek
Producer: Christine Vachon, Stanley J. Wlodkowski, Pamela Koffler
Composer: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek

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Aug 5, 2004

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The stylistic flourishes are there, but they're done quietly and slowly, and besides, our attention is drawn to Williams. This is a fascinating and piercing character study, unpredictable in small ways that are made to seem vitally important.

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Robin Williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of Bicentennial Man in favour of an altogether darker side.

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09/23/02 08:20 AM
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The craftsmanship is so strenuously neat that every frame should be awarded a gold star, but there isn't a breath of spontaneous life.

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Robin Williams creates a character who earns our revulsion--and somehow also our sympathy.

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Robin Williams' good work in contained in an uneven film, whose first half is an intriguing chronicle of urban alienation, but second part deteriorates into a presposterous thriller with a subplot of stalking and revenge--not unlike Fatal Attraction

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What brings the film to a level beyond is Williams's superb performance and, in turn, Romanek's carefully calibrated direction.

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01/07/05 11:32 PM
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A music video is like espresso: a lot of visual power compressed into five minutes. A movie needs to know something of the rhythms of everyday life, or else the audience get dizzy and exhausted.

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This isn't the Williams of Mrs. Doubtfire or, thank heavens, Jack or What Dreams May Come.

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