Taglines: He knows your secrets.
One Hour Photo movie storyline. Middle aged Sy Parrish works as a technician at a one hour photo lab located in a SavMart store in a suburban mall. Sy is a lonely man, never having had any friends. He knows much about his customers through the photographs they have developed. But he knows more about the Yorkin family – specifically Nina Yorkin and her adolescent son Jake Yorkin, the two in the family who drop off and pick up the family’s photofinishing – the family about whom he is obsessed, than anyone else.
Nina’s husband, Will Yorkin, is incidental to his obsession since Sy has only seen him in photographs. Sy’s obsession includes fantasizing about being their favorite “Uncle Sy”. He has even been making an extra set of prints for himself of all of their photographs since Jake was a newborn. After an incident at work and after Sy finds out more about the family through a set of photographs, he decides to right the injustices he sees in the only way he knows how. His actions demonstrate his true mental state.
One Hour Photo is a 2002 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, and Eriq La Salle. Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, One Hour Photo received positive reviews from film critics, with praise for Romanek’s writing and Cronenweth’s cinematography, while Williams’ against-type performance received universal critical acclaim, earning him a Saturn Award for Best Actor.
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; this was a moderate box office success, as the budget was around $12 million.
One Hour Photo (2002)
Directed by: Mark Romanek
Starring: Robin Williams, Michael Vartan, Connie Nielsen, Dylan Smith, Erin Daniels, Paul Hansen Kim, Lee Garlington, Gary Cole, Carmen Mormino, Andy Comeau
Screenplay by: Mark Romanek
Production Design by: Tom Foden
Cinematography by: Jeff Cronenweth
Film Editing by: Jeffrey Ford
Costume Design by: Arianne Phillips
Art Direction by: Michael Manson
Makeup Department: Cheri Minns, Stephen Robinette
Music by: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek
MPAA Rating: R for sexual content and language.
Distributed by: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release Date: September 13, 2002
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