One Hour Photo
One Hour Photo (2002) is an American psychological thriller film written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams. Fox Searchlight Pictures distributed the movie in the United States. The movie also starred Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, and Eriq La Salle. Robin Williams won a Saturn Award for Best Actor (2003) for his work in the film.
Plot Outline
Sy Parrish, a photo tech at SavMart, leads a depressing life alone. Daily, he labors to ensure the most perfect photos possible for his customers. One of those customers is the Yorkin family, which includes husband William (Vartan), wife Nina (Nielsen), and their only child Jake (Dylan Smith). Sy has done their photos for years, and in the interim between then and now, he has developed an obsession with the family, admiring their happiness and wealth, and going as far as to follow them, stage so-called coincidence meetings at places, and spying on them from afar.
Sy learns that William is having an affair and this shatters his conception of the Yorkins as the "perfect" family - the family he would want to be part of. His hatred for William begins to grow out of control. Sy soon finds himself in a world of trouble; in trouble with his store manager Bill Owens (Cole) for an outburst in the store and later, after a violent confrontation with William and his mistress at their hotel, with two 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