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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
8.1/10
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
    • Officer Grabowskias Officer Grabowski
    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.

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    9/10
    Awesome film - shame about the trailer
    Room, based on the book by Emma Donoghue, starts on young Jack's 5th birthday. He gets a birthday cake from his mother (but no candles); a visit from his father; and a gift, albeit belatedly. This would all be perfectly normal except that all of this takes place within 'Room' - a confined space with only a single skylight for daylight and no means of escape. For the mother, Joy, was abducted as a teen and locked away for sex in the style of the dreadful real-life examples such as that perpetrated by Josef Fritzl in Austria. Jack is the (presumably) unintended result: a boy with no perception of the real world beyond his four single-sided walls and with the staunchly-held view that the things he sees on a flickering TV screen are in 'TV land' and unreal. Will Jack and Joy survive and ever see freedom again?

    And that's where I'll leave this synopsis, since (if you've been lucky enough to avoid the trailer) there is a tense cat-and-mouse story to unfurl here.

    This is an absorbing, although slow-moving, film that builds to some truly nail-biting moments. The screenwriter (also Donoghue) and director (Irishman Lenny "Frank" Abrahamson) are to be commended in keeping the story and drama really well-grounded and un-saccharined. Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), the 'evil kidnapper', is not painted as some predictable monster: he is even portrayed to be kind and caring at some warped level. And there is no gratuitous sex: we are in effect seven years into the story and the abnormal is now completely normalised.

    The film is told primarily from the viewpoint of Jack (Jacob Tremblay) but we also get under the skin of Joy (Brie Larson) and her emotions in trying to mentally deal with her ordeal. Looking at a picture of her with her school friends she bitterly comments that "Nothing happened to them - - they just got on with their lives".

    The acting is superb. I made the mistake of voting for John Boyega for the BAFTA Rising Star award before seeing this film (you can cast your vote here http://www.bafta.org/film/awards/ee-rising-star-award-in-2016). Not that Boyega isn't great, but Brie Larson really REALLY delivers here. She obviously won't give a hoot if she wins the Best Actress Oscar! And for me, for this award, she shines out in what I would perhaps see as one of this year's weaker Oscar categories. Jacob Tremblay is also exceptional as Jack - and it would be nice (rather than try to compare young performances with adult ones, as per Anna Paquin) if there was a special awards category for actors and actresses under 10. If there was, then Tremblay would storm it! You seriously forget that this is a child acting a part. He is totally connected to the role and these two core performances lock in your belief in the story.

    Supporting the cast are the ever reliable William H Macy as Joy's mentally tortured father, Joan Allen (Pamela Landy from the "Bourne" films) as her equally distraught mother and Sean Bridgers as the kidnapper.

    At 2 hours long some of the scenes in the middle of the film made my attention waver a little. But my main criticism is in the trailer and marketing of the film. If ever there was a need for a true 'teaser trailer' this is it. I never know who is responsible for putting trailers together - whether the director has the final say or whether its some nameless marketing bods in the distribution company, but whoever it is they should be taken out and 'given a good talking to' for this travesty. It's like putting all of the twists in films like "The Crying Game", "The Sixth Sense" and "Gone Girl" in their respective trailers. I've gone so far as to create my own One Mann's Movies cut of the trailer, just for you good people, which I have included with my bob-the-movie-man.com version of this review.

    A leisurely, nuanced and effecting drama, this is not for fans of "Die Hard" or "Fast and Furious" fans. But for everyone else, this should be a must see.

    Please visit bob-the-movie-man.com for the graphical version of this review. Thanks.
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    FAQ5

    • Is 'Room' based on a book?
    • Why did Ma wait until Jack was 5 to escape from Room?
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    Details

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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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