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Release Date
• USA: Sep 13, 2002
• UK: 24 Aug 2002
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 8, 2003
Budget $12,000,000
BoxOffice: $31.5M
Official Website:
One Hour Photo Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for sexual content and language.
Running Time
1 hour, 36 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Fox Searchlight Pictures, Catch 23 Entertainment (in association with), Killer Films, Laughlin Park Pictures, Madjak Films (uncredited)
Studio Catch 22 Entertainment, Fox Searchlight, Killer Films, Madjak Films
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• One Hour Photo
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Genre: Thriller, Drama, Infidelity, Suspense, Psychos, Thieves, Police, Christmas, Fantasy, Marriage
Tagline: There's nothing more dangerous than a familiar face.
Plot: Viewed through our photographs, it would seem we have lived a joyous, leisurely existence. Sy Parrish (Robin Williams), who makes this observation, adversely leads a lonely life, operating a photo lab in a SavMart department store. He escapes his dreary reality through the family photos of Nancy Yorkin (Connie Nielsen) and her family. His admiration of the Yorkins becomes an obsession, as he fashions himself as Uncle Sy to little Jake (Dylan Smith). Sy's judgment becomes impaired by his unhealthy interest, causing him to lose his job of 11 years. As his final day approaches, Sy develops photographs revealing an indiscretion on the part of Mr. Yorkin (Michael Vartan). The unstable Sy now develops a disturbing, calculated plan to instill family values to the Yorkin clan.Much of ONE HOUR PHOTO takes place inside a department store similar to a Wal-Mart, bordered in an icy blue. This cold atmosphere creates a solitary framework for the disturbed photo developer Sy Parrish, played with a melancholic detachment by Williams, working here against type. Director Mark Romanek (STATIC) has created a thriller with little violence. Instead, it is permeated with an uncomfortable fear emanating from its damaged
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This film is not just scary, it's thought provoking. It is such a relief to see Mr. Williams in a much darker role then we are used to.  -- (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
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| Directed by |
Mark Romanek
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Mark Romanek
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 | Michael Vartan
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 | Gary Cole
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 | Nick Searcy
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 | Clark Gregg
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Trent Reznor
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