One Hour Photo (Full Screen Edition)

One Hour Photo (Full Screen Edition)


Starring: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
Director: Mark Romanek
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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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
Description
Robin Williams delivers his "finest hour" (USA Today) in "one of the eeriest, most absorbing, effective thrillers in years" (NBC-TV). Sy "the photo guy" Parrish (Williams) has lovingly, painstakingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he's part of their family. When "Uncle Sy's" picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next "has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological crime thrillers!" (The New York Observer)
One Hour Photo (Widescreen Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Loneliness can be dangerous
  • Great film
  • About Schmidt is the better, fat, old guy on a toilet movie, but
  • Great movie
  • Short Story Range Material Stretched To Feature Length Showing
 One Hour Photo (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Robin Williams , Connie Nielsen , Michael Vartan , Dylan Smith (III) , and Erin Daniels
Director: Mark Romanek
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B00007976T
Release Date: 2003-02-18

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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

Description

Robin Williams delivers his "finest hour" (USA Today) in "one of the eeriest, most absorbing, effective thrillers in years" (NBC-TV). Sy "the photo guy" Parrish (Williams) has lovingly, painstakingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he's part of their family. When "Uncle Sy's" picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next "has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological crime thrillers!" (The New York Observer)

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Loneliness can be dangerous.......2007-06-02

One Hour Photo feels like a small stone tossed into a secluded lake, where the suprising ripple effect can be intimately felt by anyone in the vicinity. Sy Parrish (Robin Williams) is the lonely guy that creeps into your personal life, trespassing on your mind and inner feelings.
The window he uses to crawl inside is through the family photographs. He is the "mad scientist" at the photo lab, and his customers are his main project. He puts an overabundance of care into every meticulous detail of his craft, a complete perfectionist when it comes to developing pictures.
This might not be a problem except he becomes so absorbed with one particular family. He makes extra copies of their photos, and takes them home to put on his wall. His obsession builds steadily as the film progresses. Pictures say 1000 words, and after awhile, Sy feels like part of the family.
When "Uncle Sy" realizes this family isn't as perfect as he wants them to be, he takes measures to correct it. Drastic measures. As the tension builds toward the climax, it will often make you uncomfortable watching him work.
This is a very character driven story. Williams carries the entire thing, with his blank stares and subtle getures. He's great in a creepy role!
I also liked the art direction and cinematography in this movie. The color and lighting schemes look very much like Stanley Kubrick's work, with stunningly bright, cool colors, giving a cold antiseptic feel.
One Hour Photo is a small film with universal themes of family, loneliness, insecurities, infidelity, and feelings of privacy. You might feel a little violated after watching it.

5 out of 5 stars Great film.......2007-05-09

My favorite robin williams movie. Rally good atmosphere and the whole realistic creepy elements are perfect, a very re-watchable film.

5 out of 5 stars About Schmidt is the better, fat, old guy on a toilet movie, but.......2007-03-01

...One Hour Photo is the more watchable film. Romanek's MTV eye betrays the absurdly phony family scenes, but the SavMart stuff has a unique aesthetic appeal, if only because big-budget movies are rarely set in brightly-lit stores and malls where so many of us spend so much of our lives. After nine plus hours of dank and dark Hobbit opera, this film is the perfect palate cleanser. My favorite scene involves Sy arguing with the technician about color shifts or some such thing--it's just so relatably banal. Nobody's saving the world or falling in love. The predictable third-act hysterics bring us back to movieland but, overall, a memorable semi-cult flick.

5 out of 5 stars Great movie.......2007-01-15

Creepy, yes, but we not only felt sympathy for Robin Williams' character - we felt he was almost right to do what he did.
His motives were portrayed very clearly and one could not help but nod head in agreement...
Movie keeps you on the edge of your seat, but doesn't leave bad feelings in the end...
Satisfying evening.

3 out of 5 stars Short Story Range Material Stretched To Feature Length Showing.......2007-01-08

I respect the performance Robin Williams gave here as a lonely, brittle man whose entire life is defined by his job as a photo developer in the sterile world of a suburban megamart. He was both unreachably cold and yet also pathetically needy. His eruption comes late in the film, and it is somehow....not well handled by the makers of this movie. It was just not done right and left scant satisfaction to be had. Beyond that, I felt little connection to this predictable and by-the-numbers movie, and honestly it was a chore to get through.
One Hour Photo (Full Screen Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Loneliness can be dangerous
  • Great film
  • About Schmidt is the better, fat, old guy on a toilet movie, but
  • Great movie
  • Short Story Range Material Stretched To Feature Length Showing
 One Hour Photo (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Robin Williams , Connie Nielsen , Michael Vartan , Dylan Smith (III) , and Erin Daniels
Director: Mark Romanek
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00007976U
Release Date: 2003-02-18

Amazon.com

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

Description

Robin Williams delivers his "finest hour" (USA Today) in "one of the eeriest, most absorbing, effective thrillers in years" (NBC-TV). Sy "the photo guy" Parrish (Williams) has lovingly, painstakingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he's part of their family. When "Uncle Sy's" picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next "has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological crime thrillers!" (The New York Observer)

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Loneliness can be dangerous.......2007-06-02

One Hour Photo feels like a small stone tossed into a secluded lake, where the suprising ripple effect can be intimately felt by anyone in the vicinity. Sy Parrish (Robin Williams) is the lonely guy that creeps into your personal life, trespassing on your mind and inner feelings.
The window he uses to crawl inside is through the family photographs. He is the "mad scientist" at the photo lab, and his customers are his main project. He puts an overabundance of care into every meticulous detail of his craft, a complete perfectionist when it comes to developing pictures.
This might not be a problem except he becomes so absorbed with one particular family. He makes extra copies of their photos, and takes them home to put on his wall. His obsession builds steadily as the film progresses. Pictures say 1000 words, and after awhile, Sy feels like part of the family.
When "Uncle Sy" realizes this family isn't as perfect as he wants them to be, he takes measures to correct it. Drastic measures. As the tension builds toward the climax, it will often make you uncomfortable watching him work.
This is a very character driven story. Williams carries the entire thing, with his blank stares and subtle getures. He's great in a creepy role!
I also liked the art direction and cinematography in this movie. The color and lighting schemes look very much like Stanley Kubrick's work, with stunningly bright, cool colors, giving a cold antiseptic feel.
One Hour Photo is a small film with universal themes of family, loneliness, insecurities, infidelity, and feelings of privacy. You might feel a little violated after watching it.

5 out of 5 stars Great film.......2007-05-09

My favorite robin williams movie. Rally good atmosphere and the whole realistic creepy elements are perfect, a very re-watchable film.

5 out of 5 stars About Schmidt is the better, fat, old guy on a toilet movie, but.......2007-03-01

...One Hour Photo is the more watchable film. Romanek's MTV eye betrays the absurdly phony family scenes, but the SavMart stuff has a unique aesthetic appeal, if only because big-budget movies are rarely set in brightly-lit stores and malls where so many of us spend so much of our lives. After nine plus hours of dank and dark Hobbit opera, this film is the perfect palate cleanser. My favorite scene involves Sy arguing with the technician about color shifts or some such thing--it's just so relatably banal. Nobody's saving the world or falling in love. The predictable third-act hysterics bring us back to movieland but, overall, a memorable semi-cult flick.

5 out of 5 stars Great movie.......2007-01-15

Creepy, yes, but we not only felt sympathy for Robin Williams' character - we felt he was almost right to do what he did.
His motives were portrayed very clearly and one could not help but nod head in agreement...
Movie keeps you on the edge of your seat, but doesn't leave bad feelings in the end...
Satisfying evening.

3 out of 5 stars Short Story Range Material Stretched To Feature Length Showing.......2007-01-08

I respect the performance Robin Williams gave here as a lonely, brittle man whose entire life is defined by his job as a photo developer in the sterile world of a suburban megamart. He was both unreachably cold and yet also pathetically needy. His eruption comes late in the film, and it is somehow....not well handled by the makers of this movie. It was just not done right and left scant satisfaction to be had. Beyond that, I felt little connection to this predictable and by-the-numbers movie, and honestly it was a chore to get through.
Charlie Rose with Robin Williams (December 10, 2002)
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    		Charlie Rose with Robin Williams (December 10, 2002)

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    An interview with comedian and actor Robin Williams about his stand-up comedy tour, recent film roles, and his travels to the Middle East.
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      An interview with comedian and actor Robin Williams about his stand-up comedy tour, recent film roles, and his travels to the Middle East.
      One Hour Photo / Don't Say a Word
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        		One Hour Photo / Don't Say a Word
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        One Hour Photo & Donnie Darko (Full Screen Edition)
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          		One Hour Photo & Donnie Darko (Full Screen Edition)
          Starring: Robin Williams , Connie Nielsen , Michael Vartan , Dylan Smith (III) , and Erin Daniels
          Director: Mark Romanek , and Richard Kelly (II)
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          One Hour Photo [Region 2]
          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
          • Loneliness can be dangerous
          • Great film
          • About Schmidt is the better, fat, old guy on a toilet movie, but
          • Great movie
          • Short Story Range Material Stretched To Feature Length Showing
          		 One Hour Photo [Region 2]
          Starring: Robin Williams , Connie Nielsen , Michael Vartan , Dylan Smith (III) , and Erin Daniels
          Director: Mark Romanek
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          ASIN: B00006LA87

          Amazon.com

          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

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars Loneliness can be dangerous.......2007-06-02

          One Hour Photo feels like a small stone tossed into a secluded lake, where the suprising ripple effect can be intimately felt by anyone in the vicinity. Sy Parrish (Robin Williams) is the lonely guy that creeps into your personal life, trespassing on your mind and inner feelings.
          The window he uses to crawl inside is through the family photographs. He is the "mad scientist" at the photo lab, and his customers are his main project. He puts an overabundance of care into every meticulous detail of his craft, a complete perfectionist when it comes to developing pictures.
          This might not be a problem except he becomes so absorbed with one particular family. He makes extra copies of their photos, and takes them home to put on his wall. His obsession builds steadily as the film progresses. Pictures say 1000 words, and after awhile, Sy feels like part of the family.
          When "Uncle Sy" realizes this family isn't as perfect as he wants them to be, he takes measures to correct it. Drastic measures. As the tension builds toward the climax, it will often make you uncomfortable watching him work.
          This is a very character driven story. Williams carries the entire thing, with his blank stares and subtle getures. He's great in a creepy role!
          I also liked the art direction and cinematography in this movie. The color and lighting schemes look very much like Stanley Kubrick's work, with stunningly bright, cool colors, giving a cold antiseptic feel.
          One Hour Photo is a small film with universal themes of family, loneliness, insecurities, infidelity, and feelings of privacy. You might feel a little violated after watching it.

          5 out of 5 stars Great film.......2007-05-09

          My favorite robin williams movie. Rally good atmosphere and the whole realistic creepy elements are perfect, a very re-watchable film.

          5 out of 5 stars About Schmidt is the better, fat, old guy on a toilet movie, but.......2007-03-01

          ...One Hour Photo is the more watchable film. Romanek's MTV eye betrays the absurdly phony family scenes, but the SavMart stuff has a unique aesthetic appeal, if only because big-budget movies are rarely set in brightly-lit stores and malls where so many of us spend so much of our lives. After nine plus hours of dank and dark Hobbit opera, this film is the perfect palate cleanser. My favorite scene involves Sy arguing with the technician about color shifts or some such thing--it's just so relatably banal. Nobody's saving the world or falling in love. The predictable third-act hysterics bring us back to movieland but, overall, a memorable semi-cult flick.

          5 out of 5 stars Great movie.......2007-01-15

          Creepy, yes, but we not only felt sympathy for Robin Williams' character - we felt he was almost right to do what he did.
          His motives were portrayed very clearly and one could not help but nod head in agreement...
          Movie keeps you on the edge of your seat, but doesn't leave bad feelings in the end...
          Satisfying evening.

          3 out of 5 stars Short Story Range Material Stretched To Feature Length Showing.......2007-01-08

          I respect the performance Robin Williams gave here as a lonely, brittle man whose entire life is defined by his job as a photo developer in the sterile world of a suburban megamart. He was both unreachably cold and yet also pathetically needy. His eruption comes late in the film, and it is somehow....not well handled by the makers of this movie. It was just not done right and left scant satisfaction to be had. Beyond that, I felt little connection to this predictable and by-the-numbers movie, and honestly it was a chore to get through.
          Charlie Rose with Robin Williams & Mark Romanek; Mark Schweiker (August 21, 2002)
          Average customer rating: Not rated
            		Charlie Rose with Robin Williams & Mark Romanek; Mark Schweiker (August 21, 2002)

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            ASIN: B000HBL4FC
            Release Date: 2006-08-15

            Description

            Comedian-actor Robin Williams and director Mark Romanek discuss their new film, One Hour Photo. Then, a conversation with Governor of Pennsylvania Mark Schweiker about overseeing a 77-hour operation to rescue nine miners trapped in Pennsylvania's flooded Quecreek Mine.
            One Hour Photo [Region 2]
            Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
            • Loneliness can be dangerous
            • Great film
            • About Schmidt is the better, fat, old guy on a toilet movie, but
            • Great movie
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            		 One Hour Photo [Region 2]
            Starring: Robin Williams , Connie Nielsen , Michael Vartan , Dylan Smith (III) , and Erin Daniels
            Director: Mark Romanek
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            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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            4 out of 5 stars Loneliness can be dangerous.......2007-06-02

            One Hour Photo feels like a small stone tossed into a secluded lake, where the suprising ripple effect can be intimately felt by anyone in the vicinity. Sy Parrish (Robin Williams) is the lonely guy that creeps into your personal life, trespassing on your mind and inner feelings.
            The window he uses to crawl inside is through the family photographs. He is the "mad scientist" at the photo lab, and his customers are his main project. He puts an overabundance of care into every meticulous detail of his craft, a complete perfectionist when it comes to developing pictures.
            This might not be a problem except he becomes so absorbed with one particular family. He makes extra copies of their photos, and takes them home to put on his wall. His obsession builds steadily as the film progresses. Pictures say 1000 words, and after awhile, Sy feels like part of the family.
            When "Uncle Sy" realizes this family isn't as perfect as he wants them to be, he takes measures to correct it. Drastic measures. As the tension builds toward the climax, it will often make you uncomfortable watching him work.
            This is a very character driven story. Williams carries the entire thing, with his blank stares and subtle getures. He's great in a creepy role!
            I also liked the art direction and cinematography in this movie. The color and lighting schemes look very much like Stanley Kubrick's work, with stunningly bright, cool colors, giving a cold antiseptic feel.
            One Hour Photo is a small film with universal themes of family, loneliness, insecurities, infidelity, and feelings of privacy. You might feel a little violated after watching it.

            5 out of 5 stars Great film.......2007-05-09

            My favorite robin williams movie. Rally good atmosphere and the whole realistic creepy elements are perfect, a very re-watchable film.

            5 out of 5 stars About Schmidt is the better, fat, old guy on a toilet movie, but.......2007-03-01

            ...One Hour Photo is the more watchable film. Romanek's MTV eye betrays the absurdly phony family scenes, but the SavMart stuff has a unique aesthetic appeal, if only because big-budget movies are rarely set in brightly-lit stores and malls where so many of us spend so much of our lives. After nine plus hours of dank and dark Hobbit opera, this film is the perfect palate cleanser. My favorite scene involves Sy arguing with the technician about color shifts or some such thing--it's just so relatably banal. Nobody's saving the world or falling in love. The predictable third-act hysterics bring us back to movieland but, overall, a memorable semi-cult flick.

            5 out of 5 stars Great movie.......2007-01-15

            Creepy, yes, but we not only felt sympathy for Robin Williams' character - we felt he was almost right to do what he did.
            His motives were portrayed very clearly and one could not help but nod head in agreement...
            Movie keeps you on the edge of your seat, but doesn't leave bad feelings in the end...
            Satisfying evening.

            3 out of 5 stars Short Story Range Material Stretched To Feature Length Showing.......2007-01-08

            I respect the performance Robin Williams gave here as a lonely, brittle man whose entire life is defined by his job as a photo developer in the sterile world of a suburban megamart. He was both unreachably cold and yet also pathetically needy. His eruption comes late in the film, and it is somehow....not well handled by the makers of this movie. It was just not done right and left scant satisfaction to be had. Beyond that, I felt little connection to this predictable and by-the-numbers movie, and honestly it was a chore to get through.
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