One Hour Photo (DVD)

How do you like your Robin Williams? Manic (Mork and Mindy, Good Morning Vietnam)? Or serious (Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society)? Until 2002, your basic Robin Williams was only available in those two flavours. Then came Robin Williams...psycho. In the space of two films (this and Insomnia), Williams turned his image on its head. One Hour Photo sees a new direction in the "funny man's" career and a highly effective one. As Sy Parrish, a loner who works as a photo developer in a supermarket and develops and unhealthy obsession with one of his customers, Williams turns in a genuinely creepy performance. The film takes an interesting ...  Read the complete review

Sy Parrish is a lonely man. He has no friends, no family and lives alone in a dull apartment, lifeless apart from the hamster that occupies a cage on the side table. For most of his working life, Sy has worked in the local supermarket on the photo-developing counter, where has become a popular and friendly face to the inhabitants of the local town. More commonly known as “Sy, the Photo Guy”, Sy sees the most intimate sides of the townsfolk through the reels of camera film that they bring to him for development. He sees it all; amateur porn, endless baby photos, cute pet photos and, of course, a seemingly relentless flow of cute, happy family photos. As Sy, himself tells ...  Read the complete review

Only flawed by a couple of slightly misjudged moments, 'One Hour Photo' represents a cleverly constructed film whose success lies in the pivotal role of its leading man. This role called for an actor who could bring pitch-perfect precision and sensitivity to the character who drives the entire film. The words 'sensitivity' and 'precision' don't exactly spring to mind when considering Robin Williams - in fact, 'frenzied' and 'spontaneous' would probably seem more fitting. Recently, however, Williams appears to have changed direction in his acting career. 'Insomnia' seemed to mark this pivotal point as being far more ...  Read the complete review

I don't have my photos processed by a third party anymore, as I just print them off myself, but when I did, I always wondered what people thought about my pictures when they were developing them, especially the more risque ones from my single and slightly mad days. I am sure many of you have pondered the same question, and 'One Hour Photo' does the same, and comes up with some answers for you too....What do they think of your new born baby? What about the pictures of that night you got steamy with a new lover? You may get answers you do not want to hear! Robin Williams stars as Sy Parrish, a loner, a perfectionist who seems to live only for his job ...  Read the complete review

One Hour Photo sees Robin Williams playing a lonely photo developer named Sy. Sy?s life is so lonely that he escapes into a fantasy world where he?s a member of one of the families that use his services. However his whole fantasy has been based around the happy photographs, and as such isn?t a particularly realistic fantasy. As a result when Sy develops a photograph that shows the husband of this family cheating his fantasy begins to fall apart, and gradually so does he. Director Mark Romanek has infused the film with a unique visual style that mimics the lives of the characters. The Yorkins home is a ...  Read the complete review