When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.
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Johnny is a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored with him and decides to seduce his best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again.
Director:
Tommy Wiseau
Stars:
Tommy Wiseau,
Juliette Danielle,
Greg Sestero
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Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Director:
Craig Gillespie
Stars:
Margot Robbie,
Sebastian Stan,
Allison Janney
Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.
Director:
Sean Baker
Stars:
Brooklynn Prince,
Bria Vinaite,
Willem Dafoe
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves entangled in a real-life mystery when the shady brother of one of them is seemingly kidnapped by dangerous gangsters.
Directors:
John Francis Daley,
Jonathan Goldstein
Stars:
Jason Bateman,
Rachel McAdams,
Kyle Chandler
Aspiring actor Greg Sestero befriends the eccentric Tommy Wiseau. The two travel to L.A, and when Hollywood rejects them, Tommy decides to write, direct, produce and star in their own movie. That movie is The Room, which has attained cult status as the "Citizen Kane" of bad movies.Written by
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In a December 2017 interview, Greg Sestero admitted that he was disappointed with the film; he felt the film "should've been a half hour longer" and that it "should've included Tommy's backstory." See more »
Goofs
Between cuts once Tommy and Greg are in front of the screen at the premier, Tommy's sunglasses move from being on his head to on his face. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Kristen Bell:
If you were to ask the five best filmmakers in the world right now to make a movie like this... it... it wouldn't even be in the same universe.
Ike Barinholtz:
I was blown away. Like, like three minutes in, I turn to my friend, "This is the fucking greatest movie I've ever seen in my life."
[chuckles]
Adam Scott:
It has withstood, like, ten years? And people are still watching a movie and talking about a movie. People aren't doing that about whatever won the Oscar for Best Picture ten years ago.
Kevin Smith:
What genius is...
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Crazy Credits
The school desk in the Point Grey Pictures title sequence contains a rose and a picture of a spoon. See more »
The Room as a post-irony phenomenon with a sole purpose to mock and deride performers who weren't quite performing to the caliber of the idiot audiences specification, here another symptom in late-stage capitalism finding millennial's lashing out at their own irrelevance in a society which has no place at all for them economically, socially, morally. This can only occur in a culture where entertainment is identity, culture is religion, meaning is a prank.
What seemed harmless before is becoming quite clear in hindsight what this was; the have's assaults on the have not's attempting to exit their strata through grit, sweat, and skin in the game. Once upon a time art was a noble undertaking commanding society's respect. Now it is some kind of a political badminton match, birdy smashed with might, but floating back and forth as this waving stupid thing.
Of course making him a folk hero is the consolation their hatred is good-willed, but it never has the effect they think; you see this every once in a while with David Hung or Rebecca Black, the Quasimodo made king of fools and and shortly after pummeled with tomatoes. This is ugly Americanism, an abuse of your power that your great conglomerates seeped into foreign nations and seemed to their wanting populaces as some great ideal. As in, it's your fault. But he can't pronounce words the proper way? He slurs and mutters? His world-view is slightly off, alien to highlight ours in a comical way. Of course, I mean he didn't grow up here. So what is the crime; that foreigners are foreign? That they're people too? With dreams? Is it some sort of collective guilt where you managed to outsource a bit of culture amidst your sweatshops, and there one escaped?
Sometimes these folk heroes within societies of great decay are even given social and political power. Remember, everything is backward. Outside is identity. Material is spirituality. Culture is debasing not lifting. Art is hate.
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The Room as a post-irony phenomenon with a sole purpose to mock and deride performers who weren't quite performing to the caliber of the idiot audiences specification, here another symptom in late-stage capitalism finding millennial's lashing out at their own irrelevance in a society which has no place at all for them economically, socially, morally. This can only occur in a culture where entertainment is identity, culture is religion, meaning is a prank.
What seemed harmless before is becoming quite clear in hindsight what this was; the have's assaults on the have not's attempting to exit their strata through grit, sweat, and skin in the game. Once upon a time art was a noble undertaking commanding society's respect. Now it is some kind of a political badminton match, birdy smashed with might, but floating back and forth as this waving stupid thing.
Of course making him a folk hero is the consolation their hatred is good-willed, but it never has the effect they think; you see this every once in a while with David Hung or Rebecca Black, the Quasimodo made king of fools and and shortly after pummeled with tomatoes. This is ugly Americanism, an abuse of your power that your great conglomerates seeped into foreign nations and seemed to their wanting populaces as some great ideal. As in, it's your fault. But he can't pronounce words the proper way? He slurs and mutters? His world-view is slightly off, alien to highlight ours in a comical way. Of course, I mean he didn't grow up here. So what is the crime; that foreigners are foreign? That they're people too? With dreams? Is it some sort of collective guilt where you managed to outsource a bit of culture amidst your sweatshops, and there one escaped?
Sometimes these folk heroes within societies of great decay are even given social and political power. Remember, everything is backward. Outside is identity. Material is spirituality. Culture is debasing not lifting. Art is hate.