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03/07/03
One Hour Photo (2002)
81 %
Reviews Counted: 178 Fresh: 144 Rotten:34 Average Rating: 7/10
Consensus:
Robin Williams is every effective in this creepy thriller.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Theatrical Release: Aug 21, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $31,469,714
Synopsis: Viewed through our photographs, it would seem we have lived a joyous, leisurely existence. Sy Parrish (Robin Williams), who makes this observation, adversely leads a lonely life, operating a photo lab in a SavMart department store. He escapes his dreary reality through the family photos of... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, Eriq La Salle
Director: Mark Romanek
Screenwriter: Mark Romanek
Producer: Christine Vachon, Stanley J. Wlodkowski, Pamela Koffler
Composer: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek
Screenwriter: Mark Romanek
Producer: Christine Vachon, Stanley J. Wlodkowski, Pamela Koffler
Composer: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek
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Robin Williams creates a character who earns our revulsion--and somehow also our sympathy.
08/05/07
Robin Williams' good work in contained in an uneven film, whose first half is an intriguing chronicle of urban alienation, but second part deteriorates into a presposterous thriller with a subplot of stalking and revenge--not unlike Fatal Attraction
12/24/06
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01/26/06
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What brings the film to a level beyond is Williams's superb performance and, in turn, Romanek's carefully calibrated direction.
01/07/05
A music video is like espresso: a lot of visual power compressed into five minutes. A movie needs to know something of the rhythms of everyday life, or else the audience get dizzy and exhausted.
12/06/04
This isn't the Williams of Mrs. Doubtfire or, thank heavens, Jack or What Dreams May Come.
06/25/04
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02/01/04
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03/30/03
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Those people that call One Hour Photo the most disturbing work Robin Williams has ever produced don't know what they're talking about - I saw Patch Adams.
03/26/03
This is really all about Williams. Whatever he does next, 'One Hour Photo' will almost certainly go down as one of his finest hours.
02/13/03
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