Robin Williams plays the sinister operator of a one hour photo development lab who becomes obsessed with a young suburban family in this acclaimed thriller.
This is a rather sinister stalker story, exploring what a lonely man will do to feel wanted or significant in someone else's life. Here this man is a photo developer named Sy Parrish, played creepily by Robin Williams, who develops an obsession with a middle class family who go to his photo developing department in a large supermarket. Whenever the family give in their photos to be developed, he makes a copy for himself, building up a collage on wall at home with all their holiday snaps, baby-photos and birthday pics. He examines their seemingly perfect lifestyle, then, when he discovers imperfection under the surface, begins to pull out the building blocks of their lives, and watches them crumble.
Robin Williams takes care to make sure his character doesn't descend into a pantomime villain, and excels in the role as Sy, not only making him believable, but a character we can both hate and feel sorry for. The exquisitely executed filming style is highlights the glossy and material lives of the families in modern day suburbia, and the colour tones, from Director of Photography Jeff Croneweth, add a shiny coolness to the eerie atmosphere. As a whole, this is a excellently drawn character study, but can be broken down into key moments of realization in many different lives. The point of relisation when we ask ourselves "what have we become?".
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Robin Williams stars in this thriller written and directed by Mark Romanek. Sy Parrish (Williams) is a middle-aged loner who works as a photograph developer in a supermarket. He has gradually become obsessed with one family, the Yorkins, who regularly come to his counter, making duplicates of each film they bring in to be developed and pinning the photographs to the walls of his apartment. When Sy realises that Will Yorkin (Michael Vartan) is cheating on wife Nina (Connie Nielsen), he steps up his silent interaction with the family, placing evidence of the infidelity in an envelope of photos he has recently developed for young Jake Yorkin (Dylan Smith). Soon however, Parrish reveals his hand, and the Yorkin family realise the full horror of their situation.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. In this unnerving thriller, an employee in a one-hour photo lab (Robin Williams) becomes obsessed with a young suburban family... Actors Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith, Erin Daniels & Gary Cole Director Mark Romanek Certificate 15 years and over Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic Languages English - Dolby Digital (5.1) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour and 33 minutes (approx)
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