The Room (2003)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Tommy Wiseau

Writer:

Tommy Wiseau (writer)

Release Date:

19 February 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | Comedy

Tagline:

A film with the passion of Tennessee Williams.

Plot:

"The Room" is an American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies. It has five major characters...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Room | Betrayal | Friend | Fiancee

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Tommy Wiseau	...	Johnny
Juliette Danielle	...	Lisa
Greg Sestero	...	Mark
Philip Haldiman	...	Denny
Carolyn Minnott	...	Claudette
Robyn Paris	...	Michelle
Mike Holmes	...	Mike
Kyle Vogt	...	Peter
Greg Ellery	...	Steven
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dan Janjigian	...	Chris R

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality, language and brief violence.

Runtime:

USA:99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Chloe Productions

Trivia:

Kyle Vogt quit the film due to creative differences with Wiseau. This explains why Peter is not at the party at the end. Peter's lines were given to Greg Ellery

Goofs:

Continuity: The wine glass moves in and out of Lisa's grubby hands.

Quotes:

Denny: Why Johnny? Why Johnny?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Veronica Mars: Un-American Graffiti (#3.16)" (2007)

The "Plan 9 from Outer Space" of chamber dramas

Forget all the three-line raves this movie has received (which all seem to be suspiciously similar in tone). THE ROOM is one of those rare laugh-riots that is so fantastically inept as to border on genius. While most bad movies offer a handful of terrible scenes divided by stretches of just plain dull, writer-director-producer-star Tommy Wiseau's film offers one moment of disaster after another.

Whether it's the made-up-by-fifth-graders dialogue, the deer-in-headlights performances, or the positively icky sex scenes (love those smushed rose petals on the chubby girl's back), you'll be howling from start to finish.

This movie has already amassed a cult of people who know what to yell at the screen and when; for a movie that's being self-distributed, this rates as some kind of crap-movie miracle.

Keep an eye out for the pointless insert shots of San Francisco, which give the idea of time passing even when it doesn't: one party scene, for example, features eight of these cut-aways.

You really can't believe how terrible THE ROOM is, but at least it's entertaining, albeit in ways that the lazy-eyed, odd-bodied, English-mangling auteur never imagined. Not to be missed.