The Room |  | Director: Tommy Wiseau
Actor: Tommy Wiseau; Juliette Danielle; Greg Sestero; Philip Haldiman; Carolyn Minnott
Studio: Wiseau-Films
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Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, Full length, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen, NTSC
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
UPC: 881677825451
EAN: 0881677825451
ASIN: B000CFYAMC
Theatrical Release Date: February 19, 2005
Release Date: December 17, 2005
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Description
"The Room" is an electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies. It has five major characters, Johnny, played by Tommy Wiseau is a successful banker with great respect for an dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. Johnny can also be a little too trusiting at times which haunts him later on. Lisa, played by Juliette Danielle, is the beautiful blonde fiance of Johnny. She has always gotten her way and will manipulate to get what she wants. She is a taker, with a double personality, and her deadly schemes lead to her own downfall. Mark, played by Greg Sestero, is a young, successful and independent best friend of Johnny. He has a good heart, but gets caught up in Lisa's dangerous web and gives in to temptation. This eventually brings him to great loss. Claudette, played by Carolyn Minnott, is the classy, sophisticated mother of Lisa who has had disappointing relationships in her life. She wants her daughter to be married as soon as possible so she can benefit. Denny, played by Philip Haldiman, is an orphan boy, naive and confused about life, love, and friendship. Denny is a very ambitions and also very grateful tot he people who are in his life. "The Room" depicts the depths of frienships and relationships in one life and raises life's ral and most asked question: "Can you ever really trust anyone? Enter "The Room" and leave forever changed!
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 You are tearing me apart, Lisa! November 18, 2009
C. Ross
I have seen this movie 6 times now and it gets funnier every time. I have to get out to LA now for one of the midnight screenings. Favorite quote from the film: "Underpants, I get the picture. Hey, that's life."
What are you waiting for? buy this movie, show it to your friends and get ready to laugh!
yew ur tearing me apart, Amazon!!! November 14, 2009
Robert W. Stoll (Whittier, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is a mess! Like a heap of refuse with several stinky discarded items mixed in a pile, somehow when all these pieces of junk are fused together it somehow transforms into a diamond of sorts. There are many us who have a peculiar attachment for bad movies. We love to revel in the awfullness and laugh at the unfortunate ineptitude of the movie makers. It may sound a bit cruel, but these filmmakers asked us to pay money for their product and expect an honest reaction to their "vision", so it's really just part of the artistic process.
Back to "The Room"; it was created by, perhaps this generation's Ed Wood, Tommy Wiseau. Yes this stringy haired autuer starred, wrote, directed and produced the hell out of this film. So what is The Room? It's obvious that Mr. Wiseau intended to make a dark, dramatic story of betrayal. As the title character Johhny, he's a saint. Generous, romantic, a successful banker(?), adoptive father (sort of), and beloved by most of the inhabitants of San Fransisco. Unfortunately our saintly hero is being betrayed by his employer, fiancee and his best friend. Poor Johnny slowly unravels under all these malicous attacks. The most cutting of all is the wretched infidelity of his "bee-yutiful" girlfriend Lisa with his football tossing best friend, Mark. Lisa trys to tarnish sweet Johnny's character by claiming that he hit her in a drunken rage. Nothing will stop this evil harpie from ruining Johhny; she seduces his bestfriend into uh... the stairs(?) and lies to Johnny about being pregnant. Everything comes to a head at Johnny's birthday party. In front of all of Johhny's legions of friends and admirers, slutty, evil Lisa exposes her affair and announces that she's not going to marry him. Everyone leaves and Johnny locks himself in the can. Stunningly, bee-yutiful but horrid Lisa half heartedly tries to talk him out of the bathroom, but tires quickly of it. She calls Mark and, rather loudly, announces that Johnny is a baby and she wants to see him. After heartless Lisa leaves, an anguished Johnny yells like a wounded animal. He angrily trashes his apartment and then tragically ends it all. The betrayers, Mark & Lisa, discover the body and become desconsolate. Sobbing, Mark spurns the manipulative Lisa and the "adopted" son Denny, rushes in overcome with the death of his mentor and protector. Tears from the audience, standing ovation THE END.
What Tommy Wiseau envisioned and what he created however, were to disparate things. Instead of a dark dramatic pyscoligical epic, from a lucky convergence of incompetence was created a cult favorite of bad film. This film has it all; lame dialogue, performances that alternate between wooden and scene-munchingly over the top. Classic movie lines like, "Yew ur tearing me apart, Lisa!!!" and characters that are breathtakingly bizarre. Take for example Denny, the so called adoptive son. He was out on the street and ,heriocally, Johnny gets him an apartment in their building and pays his tuition for school. Early in the movie, Johnny, Lisa and Denny are together in Johnny's apartment. Johnny and Lisa decide to go upstairs for some horizontal recreation. Within moments, Denny sneaks upstairs watchs for a little and then jumps on the bed. The two lovers explain that 3 is a crowd and Denny announces that he likes to watch (shudder).
Then we have the femme fatale, Lisa, who is alleged to be so bee-yutiful by all throughout the movie. While she isn't a hump-backed troll, she isn't the goddess she's being purported to be. More accurately, she looks like an attractive linebacker for the Chicago Bears. Her evil machinations are meant to make our hero, Johnny more sympathetic, but every instance is so contrived due to the inept writing and acting, that the audience is at first stunned. When the putridity continues, the audience starts to laugh with incredulity.
By some bizarre cosmic convergence, this stinky cinematic piece has gained some financial success. Around the nation, people are coming in droves to watch THE ROOM at midnight shows. It has become the new Rocky Horror Show, as a audience participation film. People scream out their favorite lines or add new responses. Loads of patrons bring plastic spoons and toss them at the screen during a particular scene in the movie. Unlike many bad movies, which are mind numbingly boring, The Room sort of puts you in a trance. You can't look away, you're hypnotized by this perfect storm of visual carrion.
So bad it's good... and a facinating cultural study November 4, 2009
Alice Armstrong (Washington, DC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Room is the best/worst film I have seen in a long time. If it were possible to rate it both one and five stars at the same time, I would. Tommy Wiseau is the strangest human being I've seen in film in a long time. If you like "Plan 9 From Outer Space", try this one on for size. If you are a film student, this is an excellent study in how NOT to make a film. Enjoyable with or without RiffTrax. In conclusion, "hehn, hehn, hehn".
for all the wrong reasons... October 30, 2009
sonofnone (Tacoma, WA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
a god aweful production, but its soooooo bad its good. great movie to watch with the gang..
Oh Hhhiii, Review October 10, 2009
Dylan Paul Easton (Little Rock, AR USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It isn't until movies like Tommy Wiseau's The Room that I find a problem with the one-dimensional five-star rating system that often treats movies.
In short, The Room is bad. Really bad. But giving The Room half of a star strikes me as unwarranted cruelty, as it is just terrible enough to be entertaining.
The Room is written, directed, and produced by Tommy Wiseau, and he seems to be an amateur in all of those trades. One might wonder why nobody in the crew questioned Wiseau's methods, and the reason might just because he is large, intimidating, and has a thick, monster-like European accent. This is evident because he also cast himself as the lead actor of the movie, and his acting is no better. However, none of the other "actors" are much more talented than Wiseau. This might work for the movie's advantage, because their stiff, dry speech often distracts from the unnatural dialogue and unoriginal plot. The story is no different than any soap opera episode: a pure (but unintentionally frightening) banker named Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) slowly learns that his fiancée, Lisa (Juliette Danielle), is having an affair with his best friend(Greg Sestero). However, there are still enough plot holes to keep this melodrama from being unforgivably uninteresting.
Although Tommy Wiseau's character is supposed to be the victim, I can't help but to pity the other actors, and I blame their lack of passion on the possibility that they just want to get out of the movie as soon as possible. Nobody seems interested (or perhaps capable or brave enough) to change any of the stale writing in Wiseau's script; there is an over-abundance of the phrases "Oh hi, character" and "Don't worry about it" that appear regardless of context or appropriate emotion. In one scene, Danielle even tells her mother to "not worry about it" after she reveals that she has breast cancer.
If you ever get a chance to see this movie, I urge you to take some friends and watch it. Although meant to be a drama, Wiseau has produced one of the funniest movies of the new millennium. The Room should not be watched unprepared, however: The film features four sex scenes that, strangely enough, are incredibly uninteresting. They are all unnecessarily long, and are altogether unnecessary. However, The Room does not deserve to be missed by any movie fan who enjoys having something to mock.
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