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One hour photo film1/22/2024 ![]() ![]() His favorite customers are the Yorkin family, made up of husband Will (Michael Vartan), wife Nina (Connie Nielsen), and their son, Jake (Dylan Smith). Feeling out of place in a world where nobody seems to understand the precious gift of friends and family, Sy tends to immerse himself in his own fantasies to escape the pain of his existence. He is an extremely organized, tidy, and meticulous type of person who wears all beige attire. The only thing in Sy's immaculate apartment he has for companionship is a hamster, caged in his bedroom. As each workday comes to an end, Sy falls into the inescapable routine of spending his evenings sitting alone in his barren living room, watching television. Every day he labors to ensure his customers get the best quality photos possible his life is truly his work, as he has no one and nothing to go home to at the end of each day. Seymour "Sy" Parrish (Robin Williams), a mini-lab photo technician at SavMart's one-hour photo developing clinic in suburban Los Angeles, leads a depressing, solitary life outside of the "heaven-like", hyperreality atmosphere of the department store. 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. ![]()
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