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One Hour Photo
Directed by Mark Romanek
Sy Parrish has lovingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he's part of their family. When Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, a bizarre and thrilling confrontation ensues. From TMDB
172 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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One Hour Photo is a 2002 drama thriller film, directed by Mark Romanek, starring Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen and Michael Vartan.
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60 of 172 · most liked firstOne of the films that heavily inspired Kane Parsons and BACKROOMS? 2002's ONE HOUR PHOTO starring Robin Williams: bloody-disgusting.com/movie/395427...
neutral · AI labelView post →“One Hour Photo”, good movie.
positive · AI labelView post →When I worked in a One Hour Photo Lab in the early Nineties, after we cracked open the disposables to pull out the film, we’d yank the piezo for the flash and use it to shock co-workers like Satan’s own joy buzzer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished One Hour Photo. Excellent movie. Robin Williams as Eviller Colin Robinson is amazing. And it is *beautifully* shot. It's a shame Romanek hasn't made more movies.
positive · AI labelView post →One Hour Photo. The #movie you watch when you want to watch your childhood favorite comedian go seriously, seriously dark. The late great Robin Williams reeled in that manic energy to give us a truly terrifying and tragic performance. #filmsky #watchingtonight
positive · AI labelView post →Next, watch the other movie that Robin Williams dyed his hair blonde for... One Hour Photo. Watch it with the kids they will LOVE IT!
negative · AI labelView post →🎬 24 years ago today (September 13, 2002), the creepy "One Hour Photo" premiered across Canadian and American theatres! Written & directed by Mark Romanek, the film stars the even creepier Robin Williams as well as Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith, Gary Cole & Eriq La Salle! #Horror
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: ‘One Hour Photo’, dir. Mark Romanek, 2002. 📷
neutral · AI labelView post →robin williams was a early weeb in loving anime as he was watching stuff in the early 90s that was new to USA at the time like ghost in the shell and EVA and he loved it in the movie One Hour Photo he pronounces neon genesis evangelion wrong on purpose since it fit the character doing that mistake
neutral · AI labelView post →One Hour Photo. Deeply f’ed up movie. Honorable mention to Dead Again, a small part where he stole the show
positive · AI labelView post →As a photographer I've always been interested with how this art form is investigated in film. Honorary mention of Blow Up of course! One Hour Photo. Proof. City of God. Harrison's Flowers.
neutral · AI labelView post →Love this movie. Mom would sing the "he's large, so large..." as she squeezed my cheeks. Talking about how i was such a big baby 👶🏿. My favorite Robin Williams movie is One Hour Photo that we got on DVD when hollywood Video was shutting down
positive · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge 21- favorite Robin Williams movie ONE HOUR PHOTO
positive · AI labelView post →Watching One-Hour Photo on the Criterion Channel. It’s an odd movie the way it’s got this suave Kubrick camera eye and it’s about the sterile modern world of 2002 set in spotlessly clean Walmart type big box store. It’s like a time capsule of a time that never existed.
neutral · AI labelView post →I still consider One Hour Photo a Horror film. A stalker, especially one who preys on a family, is after all genuine fear to have. Especially if they spy on you and take photos of you obsessively. Like, that's scary shit at its most real. I'm just saying.
neutral · AI labelView post →Clever poster for the movie ONE HOUR PHOTO directed by Mark Romanek. FilmSky 🎥 #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →#Podcast: #WatchWithJen - S7: E11 - Photography Movies with Leslie Byron Pitt The film blogger, podcaster, & photographer returns to the show for a wide-ranging chat about a variety of films, especially REAR WINDOW, ONE HOUR PHOTO, & CITY OF GOD. Listen everywhere: www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tomorrow on the Main Feed: finish that roll because we're closing out April 2026 in the film mini-lab with Robin Williams in ONE HOUR PHOTO
neutral · AI labelView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky Day~ 26 Photographer in a movie 🎬 One Hour Photo (2002)
neutral · AI labelView post →World's Greatest Dad. I'm biased because it was filmed in Seattle, they shot a sequence at my workplace, and I met Bobcat Goldthwait while he was in town--neat guy! Not a perfect film, but Wms is great in it. I also like his creepy turns in One Hour Photo and Insomnia. (I dislike The Birdcage.)
positive · AI labelView post →Quote with a movie you saw when you were way too young! [One Hour Photo], I literally remember someone covering my eyes 😭 it was such a creepy movie…
neutral · AI labelView post →One Hour Photo. This is probably the first film of his I can remember where he was profoundly creepy.
positive · AI labelView post →Me whenever I think how criminally underrated the film One Hour Photo is #Blutoid
positive · AI labelView post →It's not necessarily my favorite movie overall, but one of my favorite moviegoing experiences was seeing "One Hour Photo" while I was an employee of a one-hour photo.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched the extremly good End of Evangelion. Followed by a rewatch of the also pretty good One Hour Photo, because of the Eva Meme, and because it's a good movie. Followed by a rather enjoyed watch from Pacific Rim, and ended my last 4 days with a watch of it's extremly middeling sequel.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Hero - Ultra stylised martial arts film, that deals with the identity of China. One Hour Photo - Fairly run of the mill thriller, but Robin Williams elevates this. Bowling for Columbine - Important now as it was in 2002. Idiosyncrasies aside, this is a great documentary.
neutral · AI labelView post →E3, 2002. Trent had done some music work for the film 'One Hour Photo', which Robin starred in, as well as being the sound engineer for 'Doom 3', made by John. Trent hooked Robin up with a guest pass so he could meet the creator of one of his favourite games, 'Quake'.
neutral · AI labelView post →Let's get into Mark Romanek's 2002 film ONE HOUR PHOTO, starring Robin Williams in a terrifyingly quiet performance unlike any other he gave. Have you seen this one? Tell me your .memories of this film, please! #onehourphoto #vhsvixen #markromanek youtube.com/shorts/smUrF...
positive · AI labelView post →"Without saying Mrs. Doubtfire, fav Robin Williams film?" First off, that's at the bottom of his list. It's a horrid stalker movie about a terrible former husband who doesn't make any real effort to visit his children. Any, the answer is One Hour Photo. Or maybe Final Cut.
positive · AI labelView post →Heads up: Movie Zyng has a sale going on right now on select Disney-owned movies! Some slop, but also some damn good flicks on blu-ray like 12 Years a Slave Bad Times at the El Royale Ever After A Hidden Life One Hour Photo The Peanuts Movie Raising Arizona Ready or Not Underwater Widows and more!
neutral · AI labelView post →There is a movie known as One Hour Photo. Future generations are going to have to have that one explained, like we don't get obvious cultural references to parts of life of stories from 1850, they will not know what a one-hour photo is
neutral · AI labelView post →Thanks to Chris Stuckman, I'm re-watching One-Hour Photo. This movie is SO good--not sure I was in the best headspace for it, but I'm committed now =P
positive · AI labelView post →Also you can tell when the featurettes were made just by the director's they bring in to talk about them. Yeah, Darabont and Del Toro are there, I think you're required to hire them for a classic movie retrospective but then like...the directors of TORQUE* and ONE HOUR PHOTO.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. (I think "The World According to Garp" and One Hour Photo are the only two I have NOT seen a bajillion times.)
neutral · AI labelView post →He could be hilariously funny in one film and seriously macabre in another. One Hour Photo and Insomnia are perfect examples
neutral · AI labelView post →…cameras were only for rich people. I bet when I tell my kid this story, she won't believe I'm old enough to remember photography working like that! So, as correction, I will sit her down with the movie One Hour Photo, starring Robin Williams. Then ask, "would that movie make any sense, otherwise?"
neutral · AI labelView post →hey that movie FRIENDSHIP looks like The Cable Guy or The Crush or One Hour Photo or What About Bob or Ingrid Goes West or Heavenly Creatures or Single White Female or Chuck & Buck or Fear or
neutral · AI labelView post →For no reason just now I thought of when I went to see One Hour Photo in the theater with a bunch of French graduate students, and afterward when we were standing outside one of them said "Zat was a terrible film" but his hand was shaking so much that he couldn't light his cigarette
negative · AI labelView post →Favorite Robin film: The Fisher King Favorite Robin performance: One Hour Photo I also have an uncomplicated love for him in Dead Again, a movie I have a complicated love for.
positive · AI labelView post →without saying mrs. doubtfire, fav robin williams film? Not to be gay, but Th Birdcage Close second is One Hour Photo, he was good as a bad guy
positive · AI labelView post →Robin Williams best work is the dark stuff, I think. Fisher King is my favorite film, probably, and tho he has manic moments he is beyond beautiful and heartbreaking in it. Garp is superb. One Hour Photo. Agreed, agreed. One of the few celebrity deaths that ever genuinely upset.
neutral · AI labelView post →I want to say Insomnia but I also haven't watched One Hour Photo in a minute and that movie fucking shook me to my core when I saw it.
positive · AI labelView post →#nowwatching #horrorsky #filmsky #moviesky on discord movie morning with @alig88.bsky.social One Hour Photo (2002) Dir. Mark Romanek
neutral · AI labelView post →It's also one of Williams's best performances? One Hour Photo miiiiight be better but that's such an unpleasant movie. Death to Smoochy is hilarious and shows off his range as well
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember searching out any music video directed by Mark Romanek in the late 90s/early 00s. Always excellent work for NIN, No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers ... Haven't kept up but I think he's still busy, especially with music projects. One Hour Photo was a decent movie too, with Robin Williams
positive · AI labelView post →A favorite film that starts with the letter “O” #filmsky One Hour Photo (2002)
neutral · AI labelView post →Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films. My picks - M - Must Love Dogs (or Melancholia if you want something more serious) O - One Hour Photo V - Village of the Damned I - Invisible Man E - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching One Hour Photo (2002). No surprises but Robin Williams is excellent in it. Also a 90min (96, really) movie. Huge bonus.
positive · AI labelView post →We found the film collection of the previous homeowner in the loft. A lot of trashy 2000s horror movies in there but he has One Hour Photo so that HAS to be indicative of ball knowledge.
neutral · AI labelView post →Though with that film, One Hour Photo, and a few others I always wondered why studios were hell bent on wanting him for comedies. >.>
neutral · AI labelView post →Nice - I’d forgotten about One Hour Photo. Underrated film. The world is lesser without him…
positive · AI labelView post →Today is Robin Williams' birthday! QTP with a favorite movie of his. The massively underrated “One Hour Photo”.
positive · AI labelView post →Tonights movie, One Hour Photo. I know I've seen it before, but don't remember much.
neutral · AI labelView post →Call it a hunch but I think Will Smith could play a psychopathic villain in a horror movie akin to One Hour Photo
neutral · AI labelView post →The first movie I ever saw in the theatre was Altman's Popeye. But it freaked me out. So I'm going with One Hour Photo.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw One Hour Photo when I was 6ish in 2003, in the midst my Robin Williams fixation developed by seeing Death To Smoochy in theaters in 2002. After having watched everything else up to that point he had done including standup, man, I absolutely loved that movie
positive · AI labelView post →Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films: M: Monty Python and the Holy Grail O: One Hour Photo V: Vertigo I: I, Tonya E: Eighth Grade
neutral · AI labelView post →Did another study. This time I chose a still from One Hour Photo starring Robin Williams. This movie is insanely good. #digitalart #clipstudiopaint #artstudy #portrait
positive · AI labelView post →Today I'm remembering Robin with the film One Hour Photo. This dvd was a good flea market find.
neutral · AI labelView post →His performance in One Hour Photo is still chilling. A great slow-burn of a movie, and a great performance. Out of any celebrity, his passing truly saddens me to this day.
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