#One hour photo movie#

The synopsis below may give away important plot points. His actions demonstrate his true mental state. After an incident at work and after Sy finds out more about the family through a set of photographs, he decides to right the injustices he sees in the only way he knows how. He has even been making an extra set of prints for himself of all of their photographs since Jake was a newborn. Sy's obsession includes fantasizing about being their favorite 'Uncle Sy'. Nina's husband, Will Yorkin, is incidental to his obsession since Sy has only seen him in photographs. But he knows more about the Yorkin family - specifically Nina Yorkin and her adolescent son Jake Yorkin, the two in the family who drop off and pick up the family's photofinishing - the family about whom he is obsessed, than anyone else. He knows much about his customers through the photographs they have developed. Sy is a lonely man, never having had any friends. Middle aged Sy Parrish works as a technician at a one hour photo lab located in a SavMart store in a suburban mall.

#One hour photo movie#

Because sometimes, your trip ends before the in-flight movie does, and you really don’t want to ask the pilot to circle the airport just so you can catch the finale.A mentally unstable photo developer targets an upper middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.Because sometimes, you fall asleep watching a mediocre rental, and would rather return it on time than pay two more bucks just to see the end.Because sometimes, your TiVo timer didn’t get it quite right, and cut off the crucial final minutes of something that won’t get shown again for six months.Because sometimes, you’re not interested in seeing that movie everyone’s talking about but are dying to know what the hubbub is about anyway.Because sometimes, you vaguely remember an old movie that had some sort of plot twist at the end of it, but can’t remember what it was.Because sometimes, the surprise “spoiler” ending is the only reason you’d pay $11 to see what is otherwise a turkey of a film.He did not actually take the explicit photos he made them pose for. When the photos are layed out on the table, we see that they are of various objects in the room and not the terrorized couple. After telling the police his story, Sy asks to see the photos he took of Mr. The whole movie has been Sy telling the police what led up to the hotel room incident. Sy punishes the adulterers, confronting them in their hotel room and posing them for nude photos at knifepoint, but doesn’t hurt them. Before Sy’s last day at work, he discovers that Will Yorkin (Michael Vartan) has been cheating on his wife (Connie Nielsen) when When Yorkin’s mistress (Erin Daniels) brings in film showing the two of them together. Sy’s boss at the SavMart (Gary Cole) discovers discrepancies between the number of prints processed and the number paid for, and fires Sy. He’s obsessed with them and has photos of the family through the years covering almost an entire wall in his barren apartment. Sy “The Photo Guy” Parrish (Robin Williams), imagines himself to be part of the seemingly happy Yorkin family.