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Room

  • 20152015
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  • 1h 58m
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Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay in Room (2015)
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Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
IMDb RATING
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412K
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POPULARITY
939
112
  • Director
    • Lenny Abrahamson
  • Writer
    • Emma Donoghue(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Brie Larson
    • Jacob Tremblay
    • Sean Bridgers
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  • Director
    • Lenny Abrahamson
  • Writer
    • Emma Donoghue(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Brie Larson
    • Jacob Tremblay
    • Sean Bridgers
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    • 780User reviews
    • 485Critic reviews
    • 86Metascore
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  • Top rated movie #196
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 108 wins & 140 nominations total

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    Brie Larson
    Brie Larson
    • Maas Ma
    Jacob Tremblay
    Jacob Tremblay
    • Jackas Jack
    Sean Bridgers
    Sean Bridgers
    • Old Nickas Old Nick
    Wendy Crewson
    Wendy Crewson
    • Talk Show Hostessas Talk Show Hostess
    Sandy McMaster
    • Veteranas Veteran
    Matt Gordon
    Matt Gordon
    • Dougas Doug
    Amanda Brugel
    Amanda Brugel
    • Officer Parkeras Officer Parker
    Joe Pingue
    Joe Pingue
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    Joan Allen
    Joan Allen
    • Nancyas Nancy
    Zarrin Darnell-Martin
    Zarrin Darnell-Martin
    • Attending Doctoras Attending Doctor
    Cas Anvar
    Cas Anvar
    • Dr. Mittalas Dr. Mittal
    William H. Macy
    William H. Macy
    • Robertas Robert
    Jee-Yun Lee
    • News Anchoras News Anchor
    Randal Edwards
    Randal Edwards
    • Lawyeras Lawyer
    Justin Mader
    Justin Mader
    • FBI Agentas FBI Agent
    Ola Sturik
    • Reporter #1as Reporter #1
    Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll
    Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll
    • Reporter #2as Reporter #2
    Rory O'Shea
    Rory O'Shea
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    • Director
      • Lenny Abrahamson
    • Writer
      • Emma Donoghue(screenplay by) (based on the novel by)
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    • Trivia
      Brie Larson isolated herself in her home for a month without a phone or internet and followed a strict diet in order to get a sense of what Ma and Jack were going through. Larson has said that because she considers herself an introvert who prefers to stay at home, she thought that her month of isolation would be a vacation, but towards the last week she became very depressed and would cry all day.
    • Goofs
      As Jack is lying face-up, his head at the tailgate of the truck, he beholds the naked sky for the first time. The world is passing by - from top to bottom of the screen. This is exactly the opposite of how he would see it from his established perspective. This is no small error for arguably the most beautiful moment in the film.
    • Quotes

      Jack: I've been in the world 37 hours. I've seen pancakes, and a stairs, and birds, and windows, and hundreds of cars. And clouds, and police, and doctors, and grandma and grandpa. But Ma says they don't live together in the hammock house anymore. Grandma lives there with her friend Leo now. And Grandpa lives far away. I've seen persons with different faces, and bigness, and smells, talking all together. The world's like all TV planets on at the same time, so I don't know which way to look and listen. There's doors and... more doors. And behind all the doors, there's another inside, and another outside. And things happen, happen, HAPPENING. It never stops. Plus, the world's always changing brightness, and hotness. And there's invisible germs floating everywhere. When I was small, I only knew small things. But now I'm five, I know EVERYTHING!

    • Crazy credits
      In the "Special Thanks to" part of the credit, there's the name of Jack White, the guitarist and vocalist of the band The White Stripes, a poster of which can be seen in a scene in Joy's bedroom.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Michael Fassbender/Brie Larson/CeeLo Green (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Bag Fight
      Written by Klaus Badelt and Andrew Raiher

      Performed by Klaus Badelt, Daniel Rojas and Andrew Raiher

      Published by KB Publishing and A Olympus Pictures

      Courtesy of Wunderhorn Music, Inc.

    User reviews780

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    9/10
    A tense and compelling film
    Lenny Abrahamson's Room opens in a 10 x 10 room that has no windows, a locked door, and no light other than that provided by an overhead skylight. Jack (Jacob Tremblay), a slight five-year old boy with hair down to his shoulders wakes up each morning as he has all his life, saying hello to his world. He says hello, not to the sun or the grass outside his front door where he can run and laugh and play but only to the objects which is all his world consists of: the lamp, the sink, the plant, the refrigerator. His only friend is a mouse that he feeds with some pleasure.

    Not that he lacks for companionship. Ma (Brie Larson) is with him and their endless days consist of cooking, reading, and watching TV where Jack is told that what he sees on the screen is not real, only pretend. All he knows of the world is what he sees in front of his eyes. Old Nick (Sean Bridgers) brings food and other household items but when he comes, Jack has to hide in his wardrobe, out of sight. Ma, we find out, has been kept prisoner and used for sex by the hulking man who comes every night and we know that Jack is a result of his mother's rape. Jack is the focus of the film and we see everything from his point of view, with the help of his sometime narration but we can also get into his mother's mind and feel her pain and live her dreams.

    There is never any doubt of his mother's love though the obvious strain of keeping herself from crying out every minute is painfully obvious. To Jack, she is the center of his world and his reason for being. When the second half of the film takes a surprising turn and shifts 180 degrees, Jack and Ma are not prepared for what awaits them. Even when an alternative is suggested as possible, he doesn't want to hear anything about a different world with blue sky and rivers and trees. Room is a tense and compelling film in which Brie Larson more than fulfills the brilliance that she showed in Short Term 12 and should make her an Oscar contender. Tremblay is also superb.

    He lives his character and makes him come alive, even though he is only nine years old. Supporting roles by Joan Allen and William H. Macy also contribute to the film's second half but it is always Larson and Tremblay that carry the day. The film is not mawkish or sentimental even though the soaring score by Stephen Rennicks comes close. While there are has some plot implausibilities, the film is a tribute to the resiliency and the dedicated love of a parent for their child. It is also a teaching experience. Like many who are walled off from each other and think the box they are in is all there is, the film can give us the combination to open the locked door, if we take the risk to turn the key.
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    • Why did Ma wait until Jack was 5 to escape from Room?
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    • Release date
      • January 22, 2016 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Ireland
      • Canada
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La habitación
    • Filming locations
      • Apache Burgers, 5236 Dundas St. W., Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Element Pictures
      • Film 4
      • FilmNation Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $13,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $14,677,654
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $118,298
      • Oct 18, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $35,401,758
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 58 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Datasat
      • Dolby Atmos
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1
      • 2.39 : 1

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