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One Hour Photo (Widescreen Edition)
by (Writer: Mark Romanek)
Director: Mark Romanek
Product Group: DVD
Studio: 20th Century Fox
ISBN: B00007976T
Brand: Fox
EAN: 0024543062165
UPC: 024543062165
Binding/Media: DVD
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 96 minutes
Release Date: 2003-02-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
SKU: 011610029
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Comes in original case with original artwork. Disc is good. All items ship from a smoke-free home.
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Editorial Reviews
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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)
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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
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