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  Cole, Gary
LaSalle, Eriq
  Nielsen, Connie
Phillips, Arianne
  Vartan, Michael
Williams, Robin


} Of these Hour Photograph (2002) is an American psychological thriller film written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams. Fox Searchlight Pictures distributed the moving-picture show in the United States. A moving picture too starred Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, and Eriq La Salle. Williams won the Saturn Award for Best Actor (2003) for his work in the film.

Several critics say this picture is "doing for photos what Psycho did for showers."

Many elements from either either a film come borrowed from The Conversation, a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola.

Tagline: ''There's nothing extrthe unsafe than a familiar face''.

Plot Outline

Sy Parrish, the exposure technical school at SavMart, leads the depressing life alone. Every day, he labors to assure a virtually all hone photograph imaginable for his client. Among these client is the Yorkin personal, which includes hubby William (Vartan), married woman Nina (Nielsen), & their just tike Jake (Dylan Smith). Sy hwhen done their photograph for years, & in a lag between then & okay,, he hwhen developed an obsessiin using the personal, admiring their happiness & wealth, & running as far as to watch the babies, stage so-alleged coincidence meetings at wharehouses, & spying on the two from either afar.

Sy learns that William is with an affair & this shatters his conception of a Yorkins when the "perfect" personal - a personal he would are a share of. His hate for William begins to develop away from control. Sy before long finds himself around the globe of pawithin; in pain sustaining his store manager Bill Owens (Cole) for an outburst in the store & late, when the violent confrontation using William & his mistress at their hotel, using 2 police detectives (La Salle, Clark Gregg).

Major cast
Robin Williams - Seymour "Sy" Parrish Connie Nielsen - Nina Yorkin Michael Vartan - Will Yorkin Dylan Smith - Jake Yorkin Gary Cole - Bill Owens Eriq La Salle - Detective James Van Der Zee Clark Gregg - Detective Paul Outerbridge Erin Daniels - Maya Burson

All-Reviews.com: One Hour Photo
Collection of mostly favorable reviews.

One Hour Photo
Official site with synopsis, information on the cast and filmmakers, production notes, pictures, trailer, video clips, reviews and message board.

HARO Online: One Hour Photo
Mongoose's review: "Williams' best performance in a long time..." Rated "pretty good."

Movies for Guys: One Hour Photo
Billy Bob's review: "Although Williams may manage to creep out some of his core audience with this performance, 'One Hour Photo' is really a thriller with training wheels." Two out of five stars.

USA Today: Williams imprints 'One Hour Photo"
Claudia Puig's review: "'One Hour Photo' takes Robin Williams to darker and more complex places that we can't turn our eyes away from."

Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum's review: "... Williams shows us Sy's misery with no funny business. In 'One Hour Photo,' his is a snapshot of human complexity worth framing." Grade of B+.

LA Weekly: What's Wrong with This Picture?
Favorable review by Robert Nelson: "Indeed, no one seeing 'One Hour Photo' will continue to consider 35mm a safe choice for the family."

The New York Times: That Orderly World of His? It's About to Explode
Elvis Mitchell's mostly favorable review: "However underpopulated, the movie is thick with concentration." [Free registration required]

Salon.com
Charles Taylor's unfavorable review: "It's the most passive viewing experience imaginable. The audience is, in effect, turned into Sy's customers, told to wait patiently while the pictures are developed for us."

Flipside Movie Emporium
Positive review by Rob Vaux.


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