Room (2015)

Directed by

Lenny Abrahamson

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Canada

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

R

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 9,728 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman and her five-year-old son live in a single room where she has been held captive for years. After they escape, the boy must learn to navigate the vast outside world he has never seen.

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What happens

Room is a 2015 survival psychological drama film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Emma Donoghue, based on her 2010 novel. It stars Brie Larson as a young woman who has been held captive for seven years and whose five-year-old son (Jacob Tremblay) was born in captivity. Their escape allows the boy to experience the outside world for the first time. The film also stars Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers, Tom McCamus and William H. Macy. The film was a co-production of Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States and was shot in Toronto, with the set built at Pinewood Toronto Studios. The crew designed each part of the set of the room to be removable to provide access for the crew. Larson researched trauma and nutrition for her part. Room premiered at the 42nd Telluride Film Festival on September 4, 2015, and later screened at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award. The film was theatrically released in Canada on October 23, 2015, by Elevation Pictures and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on January 15, 2016, by StudioCanal. It began a limited theatrical run in the United States on October 16, 2015, followed by a wide release on January 22, 2016 by A24. The film was met with widespread critical acclaim, with critics particularly praising the performances of Larson and Tremblay and the storytelling, and grossed $36.3 million on a $13 million budget. A recipient of several awards and nominations, Room received four nominations at the 88th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (for Abrahamson), with Larson winning Best Actress. Larson's performance also earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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