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Seymour "Sy" Parrish (Robin Williams) is a photo technician at a one-hour photo in a big-box store. He is a perfectionist, lonely and consumed by his work.

Sy's favorite customers are the Yorkin family, whose photos he has developed for many years. He has grown obsessed with the family, enshrining them in his home with their photos that he secretly copies. He is shy and socially inept however, and his attempts to become closer to the family are gently rebuffed.

Sy eventually manages to spark a connection with Nina Yorkin (Connie Nielsen) when he pretends to be interested in a book that he saw her purchase. Nina learns that Sy lives a solitary existence, something only her son Jake had considered previously.

The next day, Sy is fired after his boss Bill (Gary Cole) discovers that Sy's machine has printed many more prints than have been ordered and paid for, as well as for spacing out on the job, taking 90-minute lunch breaks, giving Jake a disposable camera free for his birthday, and for an altercation in public with the "Agfa Guy", who performed maintenance on the developing machine.

While inspecting his photos for the last time, Sy discovers that Will Yorkin (Michael Vartan) is having an extramarital affair, and his idyllic conception of the Yorkins as the perfect family is shattered. Sy surreptitiously places the photos of Will and his mistress, Maya Burson (Erin Daniels), into a packet of photos that Nina was scheduled to pick up.

Sy follows and takes pictures, paparazzi style, of Bill's young daughter, and sends them to Bill as a threat. Yoshi, another SavMart employee, discovers the pictures and turns them over to Bill, leading to a police investigation against Sy.

While detectives Van Der Zee (Eriq La Salle) and Outerbridge (Clark Gregg) discover Sy's obsession, Sy confronts Will and Maya during a rendezvous in their hotel room. Armed with a knife and a camera, Sy forces the lovers to pose naked in sexual positions while he takes pictures of them. After the confrontation, Sy sees that the police have arrived at the hotel and he escapes through an emergency exit. The exit door trips an alarm and Van Der Zee pursues him while Outerbridge discovers Will and Maya, physically unharmed but emotionally traumatized. The police apprehend Sy in the parking garage. Upon being arrested, Sy claims, "I just took pictures."

Van Der Zee asks Sy why he terrorized the Yorkins. Sy says that he can tell Van Der Zee is a good father who would never take "disgusting, sick, degrading pictures" of his children, suggesting that Sy's own father exploited him for child pornography. Sy then asks for the pictures that he took at the hotel, which Van Der Zee described as "evidence." They appear to be only shots of objects and furnishings of a hotel room. The film closes with a doctored family picture of the Yorkins with Will's arm around a smiling Sy.

Cast

Production

Romanek intended the film to be much longer, but the studio ordered it to be shortened, and elements rearranged out of concerns about commerciality. The beginning, for example, was moved to the end. Also, several of Sy's narrative monologues were removed, and several scenes were re-shot with fewer lines. The original version also has older musical scores that were not used in the final product. A director's cut is not available to buy, but was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}

In accordance with the photography-themed movie, the names of several characters are drawn from actual photographers: Sy's assistant at the Savmart, Yoshi Araki (named for Nobuyoshi Araki); Det. Van Der Zee (James Van Der Zee); Det. Outerbridge (Paul Outerbridge); Maya Burson (Nancy Burson); and Savmart customers Mrs. von Unwerth (Ellen von Unwerth) and Mr. Siskind (Aaron Siskind). In addition, the hotel at the end of the movie, the Edgerton, is also named for a noted photographer — Harold Eugene Edgerton.{{OR|date=May 2013}}

In one of the voice-over pieces Sy can be heard to say "They actually believe that any idiot that attends a two-day seminar can master the art of making beautiful prints in less than an hour. But of course, like most things, there's far more to it than meets the eye." Robin Williams prepared for the role by training for two and-a-half days in a Southern California photo development lab.^[8]

In an interview, Romanek said that he was inspired to create this movie by the films of 'lonely men' from the 1970s, notably Taxi Driver (1976).

In the DVD commentary, Romanek says that Jack Nicholson was first approached to play the lead character. Nicholson turned the role down.

Reception

Critical response

Box office

The film's limited release began on August 21, 2002 in seven theaters, opening to a $321,515 weekend, with an average of $45,930 per theater. Its wide release began on September 13, with a 1,212 theater count. Still, the film made just over $8 million that weekend, and went on to gross $31,597,131 in the US, with an additional $20,626,175 in overseas territories, for an international total of $52,223,306;^[1] this was a moderate box office success, as the budget was around $12 million.

Accolades

See also

References

1. ^¹One-Hour Photo boxofficemojo.com
2. ^Robin Williams' Movie Transformations Retrieved 31 January 2015
3. ^Robin Williams, Who Died Monday, Brought Brutal Honesty To Roles - The Press-Democrat Retrieved 31 January 2015
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html|title=Past Saturn Awards|author=|publisher=saturnawards.org|accessdate=23 August 2002|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209012608/http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html|archivedate=9 February 2010|df=}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://napavalleyregister.com/lifestyles/robin-williams-turns-menacing-in-somber-sundance-thriller-one-hour/article_9cd60e2e-4453-5f2d-acd0-8f0a9043f898.html|title=Robin Williams turns menacing in somber Sundance thriller 'One Hour Photo'|author=Germain, David|date=January 17, 2002|publisher=Napa Valley Register|accessdate=March 26, 2018}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.robin-williams.net/interviews/onehourphoto/02-01.php|title=One Hour Photo|author=Fischer, Paul|date=January 2002|accessdate=March 26, 2018}}
7. ^{{cite web|archivedate=6 January 2006|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060106205140/http://www.nin.com/access/5_07_04/index.php|url=http://www.nin.com/access/5_07_04/index.php|title=Access|author=Trent Reznor|publisher=nin.com|date=7 May 2004|accessdate=19 February 2008}}
8. ^{{cite web|last=Maerz|first=Melissa|title=Robin Williams, Juilliard-trained tiger|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/17/entertainment/la-ca-robin-williams-20110417|accessdate=4 November 2013}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/one_hour_photo/|title=One Hour Photo Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=23 August 2002}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/onehourphoto|title=One Hour Photo (2002): Reviews|publisher=Metacritic|accessdate=23 August 2002}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020823/REVIEWS/208230303/1023|title=One Hour Photo|author=Roger Ebert|publisher=rogerebert.com|date=23 August 2002|accessdate=12 October 2017}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Blurred-image-In-One-Hour-Photo-Robin-2807103.php|title=One Hour Photo|author=Mick LaSalle|publisher=sfgate.com|date=23 August 2002|accessdate=12 October 2017}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html|title=Past Saturn Awards|publisher=Saturn Awards|accessdate=23 August 2002|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209012608/http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html|archivedate=9 February 2010|df=}}

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