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Mood:
- GloomySuspensefulContemplativeScaryTense
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Plot:
- ObsessionPsychologicalDishonestyLove and RomanceMind and SoulRivalryUndercoverCouples more...
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Genres:
- DramaThriller
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- Los AngelesUSA
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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- SeriousRealistic
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- Sexual Content
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One Hour Photo, 2002
English
USA
Profile of One Hour Photo
One Hour Photo can be described as gloomy, suspenseful, and tense. The plot revolves around undercover characters, obsession, and psychological motives. The main genres are drama and thriller. In approach, One Hour Photo is serious and realistic. It is located in Los Angeles. It takes place in contemporary times. One Hour Photo has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it involves sexual content.
Summary of One Hour Photo
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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 13 January 2002 |
| Runtime: | 96 min |
Cast and Crew
as Seymour Parrish
as Nina Yorkin
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USA Today
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- by: Claudia Puig
Chicago Tribune
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- by: Michael Wilmington
