One Hour Photo movie

An employee of a one-hour photo lab becomes obsessed with a young suburban family.

One Hour Photo (2002) is an American psychological thriller, written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams. Fox Searchlight Pictures distributed the movie in the United States, and it also starred Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, and Eriq La Salle. Williams won a Saturn Award for Best Actor (2003) for his work in the film.PlotSy Parrish, a photo tech at "SavMart", leads a depressing life alone. Daily, he labors to ensure his customers get the most perfect photos possible; his life is truly his work for he has no-one and nothing to go home to at the end of each day.

Among his customers are the Yorkin family, made up of husband William (Vartan), wife Nina (Nielsen), and their only child Jake (Dylan Smith). Sy has done their photos for years and, over time, has developed an obsession with the family; he admires their happiness, memorizes every personal detail about them that he can learn, and finally begins to stalk them. Most of all, he fantasizes about being a member of their family, and sharing in the love he assumes they must feel. However, he is painfully shy, and his attempts to become closer to the family are gently rebuffed.Sy discovers that William is having an affair, and his rosy conception of the Yorkins as the perfect loving family is shattered. He comes to hate and envy William, who has everything Sy longs for, yet who doesnt seem to care. Sy soon finds himself in trouble with his manager Bill Owens (Cole), first for an outburst in the store, and then for the managers discovery that Sy has been making unaccounted photo copies.

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One Hour Photo Cast

• Connie Nielsen
• Dave Engfer
• David Moreland
• Dylan Smith
• Erin Daniels
• Gary Cole
• Jim Rash
• Jimmy Shubert
• Lee Garlington
• Marion Calvert
• Michael Vartan
• Nick Searcy
• Paul H. Kim
• Shaun P. O'Hagan