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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Posted: March 8th, 2003.
No one ever takes a photograph of something they want to forget…
“Truly, deeply scary” – Rolling Stone
Robin Williams stars in ONE HOUR PHOTO, the chilling psychological thrillerabout a photo developer whose obsession with one particular family spiralsdangerously out of control. Critically acclaimed, ONE HOUR PHOTO is out torent and buy on video and DVD from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainmenton March 31st 2003.
Sy Parish (Robin Williams, Insomnia, Good Will Hunting) has been developing photosat SavMart for over 20 years. Unassuming and diligent, Sy takes great pride inhis work, and is dedicated to providing the best pictures possible for hiscustomers. His favourites being the Yorkin family; Nina (Connie Nielson,Gladiator, The Devils Advocate), Will (Michael Vartan, Alias) and their nineyear old son Jakob, the perfect American family who appear to enjoy the warmth,security and love Sy has always craved.
Over many years Sy has followed the Yorkin’s lives through the hundreds ofphotos he has printed for them, watching Jakob celebrate every birthday and’sharing’ in the wonderful holidays the family have taken. But gradually Syallows his interest in the Yorkins to develop into a much darker obsession,creating a fantasy world for himself as ‘Uncle Sy’, and desperately searchingfor another way into their lives.
Events turn sinister when Sy discovers a secret that shatters his pictureperfect image of his adopted ‘family’, and as Sy’s everyday life takes anunexpected turn, fantasy blurs with reality, sending him over the edge. Long-time loneliness and alienation has created an unpredictable and dangerousmind as Sy’s obsession and anger has grown. It is a race against time forDetective Van Der Zee (Eriq Le Salle, ER) when Sy determines to expose theYorkin’s imperfections, taking matters into his own hands.
ONE HOUR PHOTO is the motion picture debut from writer/director Mark Romanek,who has previously worked on much-admired music videos for artists such asMadonna, REM and David Bowie. In Sy Parish, Romanek has created a haunting yetsympathetic portrait of a man living in a dangerous and disturbing fantasyworld.
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DVD extras20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
31st March 2003
PG
91 mins
£12.99 / £17.99
22851 / 22851DVD
1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen
Dolby Digital 5.1
English for the hearing impaired
Audio commentary by Director Mark Romanek and Robin Williams,Cinemax “making of” featurette, Charlie Rose Show, with guests Mark Romanek and Robin Williams,Sundance: Anatomy of a sceneNews page content input by Dominic Robinson, 2003.
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