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Genres:
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Drama /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Director:
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Mark Romanek
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Actors:
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Jimmy Shubert,
Erin Daniels,
Jim Rash,
Dylan Smith,
Marion Calvert,
David Moreland,
Shaun P. O'Hagan,
Dave Engfer,
Robin Williams,
Connie Nielsen,
Michael Vartan,
Paul H. Kim,
Lee Garlington,
Gary Cole,
Nick Searcy
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Duration:
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96 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)101
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Plot Summary:
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The casual shopper stocking up at the particular SavMart may not prove profitable much attention to the man at the photo counter. They may, in inside info, not even see him. He is a fixture. Robin Williams portrays Sy Parrish, a sole photo technician who develops an unsettling fixation with long on occasion customers, the Yorkin family, with whom he invents a familial bond.
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A Picture Of Guilt
This film is a little reminiscent of Peeping Tom, the excellent fifties chiller. When a film allows the viewer to have sympathy with the sad spooky villain of the piece, one knows that the film will be worth watching. The atmosphere and feeling of the film makes you feel as if you’re struggling for breath. The claustrophobic life of the photo guy in the wide aisles of the store in which he works only highlights his desperate attempts to be part of the world around him, while still being an outsider.
A well acted film with plenty of suspense. A little classic of a film. Oh the loneliness of it all.
One Hour Photo
A lonely photo clerk fixates on the seemingly happy life of a suburban family. Tense and stylish psychological drama with Robin Williams on top form
Robin Williams has done unintentionally skin-crawling movies in his time (the unholy trinity of Jack, Patch Adams and Bicentennial Man leap screaming to mind), but this is his first deliberate foray into psycho thriller territory. It's a clever move.
Williams plays Sy Parrish, the chief clerk at the photo-development counter of a large supermarket. This anonymous man has no personal life, so lives vicariously through the snapshots of his customers. Especially the apparently perfect Yorkin family: mum Nina (Nielsen), dad Will (Vartan) and little son Jake (Smith). But what will happen when Sy ...
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