This connection is short-lived, however, as Sy's boss, Mr. For the first time, Nina asks Sy personal questions about his life, realizing that he is indeed a lonely man, something only Jake had empathetically noticed earlier. Sy eventually manages to spark a connection to Nina when he pretends to have interest in a novel he noticed she had been reading on a particular day in the store. However, he is painfully shy and his awkward attempts to become closer to the family are gently rebuffed. Most of all, he fantasizes about being a member of their family and sharing in the love he assumes they must feel. Sy secretly makes his own copies of the Yorkins' photos from the film negatives and then puts them on a wall in his apartment, a massive collage which has accumulated to over 600 in count. He has done their photos for years and, over time, has developed an obsession with the family he idolizes their happiness and affluence, memorizes every personal detail about them that he can learn, and finally begins to stalk them. 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.
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. A mentally unstable photo developer targets an upper middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.
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