Star Movies will premiere One Hour Photo, a thriller on 21 January at 9 pm. The movie stars Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith, Erin Daniels and Gary Cole.
Directed by Mark Romanek, the movie charts out an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time.
In the movie, Semour "Sy" Parrish (Robin Williams) runs the photo-processing department at a large discount store; Sy is dedicated to his job, and takes great pride in his work. Sy's favourite customers are Nina and Will Yorkin (Connie Nielsen and Michael Vartan), an attractive and cheerful young couple with a nine-year-old boy, Jake.
Sy dotes on the Yorkins and their son whenever they drop off film to be processed and something they've been doing quite often ever since Jake was born. Nina and Will are indulgent of Sy's attentions, regarding him as a harmless eccentric.
What the Yorkins don't know is Sy is a desperately lonely man with no real life of his own, and he's been obsessively making copies of their photos, for years, imagining himself to be Uncle Sy, a member of the family.
Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops a roll of film brought in by a new customer that suggests Will has been unfaithful to Nina; the notion that his ideal family may be falling apart is troubling enough for Sy, and when he loses his job, Sy reaches the breaking point.
