December 10, 2003
One Hour Photo (4 stars)
In One Hour Photo, Seymour 'SY' Parrish (Robin Williams) has been doing photo development for 20 years. He has a vast knowledge of modern photography and develops photos for various customers at the Sav-Mart. His biggest customers are the Yorkin family, and they seem to have everything in the world. But when SY begins spying on the Yorkins, he begins to feel that he wants to be in the Yorkin's life. But SY discovers that the Yorkins are not as perfect as they seem and becomes a man on a mission to expose the imperfections of the Yorkin family at any cost.
Williams is excellent in the role of an obsessed, socially inept photo clerk. After all the roles as the "funny man" this was a big departure in many ways for him. The plot is nothing new or ground breaking, but it had just enough twists to keep me interested the entire way through. This is definitely a movie I could watch again.