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Summary: creepy
Review: When I first found out that Robin Williams was casted to play this role I actually laughed out loud. I wasn't sure if Williams could play a very serious, psychopath. But wow....He did indeed deliever a award winning performance in One Hour Photo. Williams plays Sy Parrish, the photo tech at Savmart (like Walmart) The guy takes his job a little too seriously and falls into some strange fasination with this one family over the course of ten"ish" years. This man Sy is a very lonely man who is falling deeper and deeper into a world of loneliness and hurt with each passing day as he follows his obsession with this particular family. It's a very creepy and sad movie but excellent! Wonderfully written and the cinematography is outstanding!! A must see! Very intense!
Rating: 
Summary: sad
Review: my opinion was that this movie portrays what loneliness can do to a man. all he could do was imagine what it would be like to be part of a family,quite sad. excellent performance by williams, not the best story but all in all it was pretty good. ending was bland but ive seen worse.
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Summary: Robin Williams great in serious role
Review: Trouble in Happy Familyville. Mrs. Yorkin isn't getting the love and attention she needs from her husband, the son is also being subjected to emotional neglect by his father, and good old Sy (the photo guy who reads Deepak Chopra, so he can't be a real psycho) has always a kind word - all while Mr. Yorkin is off porking crumpet on the side. So far, so morally ambiguous. But hey! Moral ambiguity isn't where Hollywood is at, so good old Sy finds out about Mister Yorkin's extra-marital activities, gets fired from his job and....well, you'll have to see the movie. Let's just say things pick up.
All in all this is a good film. Robin Williams puts in a great perfomance as Sy; the camerawork is quite reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick so it's a great looking movie; the supporting roles including Gary Cole as slick, middle-managament type (flashback to Office Space) and Mrs. Yorkin played by Connie Nielsen are very good. Keep the kids away, though, there a few unpleasant surpises along the way..
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Summary: The worst movie ever
Review: This movie is the worst I've ever seen. The worst part about is that it's suppose to be scary, but it's just stupid. It's poorly writen and it has a terrible plot.
Rating:
Summary: weak
Review: It's not that this was just an unenjoyable film, it was just rather slow. Williams does an okay job in his role. None of the acting was outstanding. The story was rather blah. No surprises. Except at the end, where the surprise is a let down ending. Movie pokes along, then fizzles at the end. I just kept waiting for it to be as good as I was expecting.
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Summary: A little disappointing
Review: After looking forward to seeing this movie for a real long time, I finally got the chance, and sat down to watch what I was hoping would be a real scary thriller and I have to say, that's not quite what I got. Robin Williams is excellent. It's been said before, but this would be one of his best performances either in comedy or drama. He is totally creepy and rather delusional. I also was very glad to see the gorgeous Eriq La Salle in the movie. But there wasn't one time throughout the whole movie where I got scared. I wanted one of those predictable chases or something, and this movie lacked it. Overall it was good, but don't expect to get freaked out - only creeped out.
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Summary: The AFGA machine is malfunctioning
Review: The perfect version of this movie wasn;t even included on the DVD! Shame on Romanek. As evidenced on Foxlight pictures website's forum many members including myself who have seen the edited screen play cannes festival version, it's a completyely different movie. I wonder if the viewing public had a choice would they not prefer a movie that was dumbed down for the masses approach by Romanek. First off the screen play version doesnt start off letting you know sy was apprehended for some crime. It starts with a brooding monologue to capture you in. Romanek did a hack job cutting most of the meaningful WIlliams Dialogues out of the Theatrical and DVD versions. All in all it is still good to see Williams' performance as it is 5 Stars!!!
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Summary: *[kinda freakish]*[really random at times..eh, it was ok]*
Review: One Hour Photo is a movie that is well acted out and keeps your attention (most of the time.)I found it really random at times (such as Sy's dream that he was in a white room and then out of the blue started spewing blood from his eyes) and it contains stuff that...well...let's just say when you decide to watch this, leave the kiddies in the playroom.
Robin Williams plays Sy, a lonely one hour photo technition, who has visions of being a member of the Yorkin family, a family that he has been developing photos for for years. He feels as if they are his only friends and as much of a family as he'll ever get. Sy seems to get along with him and his lonely life fine, until he is fired and things go haywire. Sy finds some scandelous pictures that one of the Yorkins have taken, and it shows that what he thought was a perfect person, was really a no good cheater. Sy gets a little (ok, so he gets a lot) pshyco on this person, and the results are not only scary, but chilling, thrilling, and just plain ugly.
So there's the movie for you. Now for some details that you can take as a little heads-up for the parts in this movie that make you agree with its rating. Yes, there is strong language (a few characters drop some F bombs a couple of times), there is a quick gore scene ( Sy's dream that I mentioned before), and there is nudity. A perverted amateur whom Sy developed pics for takes pics of topless women, (yes, you see her topless a few times in photo) during Sy's rampage, the audience sees a naked woman (topless and her nether regions) and a man's nether regions, but not, uh...well not his "male body part".Yuck. So there you have it! It's al here, black and white. It's your choice! If you're looking for a chiller with tons of eerie scenes, then One Hour Photo is the right DVD for you!
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Summary: If you didnt like it, you didn't understand it.
Review: Robin Williams is an amazing actor, im sure he could pull off a movie with purely pantomimes and nothing more, so he is perfect for this role as Si, a Photodeveloper at a local supermart. It is a supremely delicate role in that he has to portray being obsessed with what he wants and appear almost as a stalker and yet still make the audience feel bad for him, if it weren't for the extreme position he is found in at the climax of this movie im sure everyone could truly say, 'that could be me.' I would reccomend this movie to anyone with a strong understanding of symbolism within movies or other arts and also to anyone searching for a movie that has more to offer in which the director has ingrained subplots or hidden meanings, etc.etc., but you must understand that Robin Williams' character is not simply a homely stalker latched onto an unlucky family, he is a midlife lonely man who only wants someone to love and love him in return, he has nothing else so he attatches to this family he sees as perfect; a large house, a beautiful son, wife, and husband, a pet dog, a new car, everything top of the line. He ends up uncovering the 'beneath-the-surface' america that is really in every home at different levels and it infuriates him, i reccommend going to sparknotes and looking up this movie for further symbolism and theme descriptions, its not one to miss.
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Summary: GOOD SUSPENSFUL DRAMA
Review: Title One HourPhoto (2002) 96 min
Directed by Mark Romanek
Plot One hour photo lab employee becomes obsessed with a surburban family. Cast Seymour "Sy" Parrish Robin Williams
Nina Yorkin Connie Nielsen I
Will Yorkin Michael Vartan
Jake Yorkin Dylan Smith III This drama takes place in a suburban area. The lonly photo lab employee, Sy Parrish, becomes obsessed with a family he has watched grow over time through their photos. Believing they are the perfect family who has everything, Sy begins to daydream about being part of the family. The family - Will Yorkin, his wife Nina, and their son Jake frequent the SavMart often where Sy works. Through the photos and conversations with Nina and Jake, Sy knows alot of what's gonig on in their daily lives.
Through other photos, Sy discovers an indiscretion within the perfect Yorkin family. As things go awry in his own life, Sy decides to take action reguarding this indiscretion.
In my opinion, this was a good movie. It was suspensful to see what he would do about the indiscretion. I was surprised how some things came out in the end (pictures). Robin Williams, known primarily for comedy, did a good job portraying the role of a disturbed man. I enjoyed this movie.
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