Room

Room (2015)

Timing: 1:58 (118 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2015-10-16

Country

Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Film4 Productions, Element Pictures, Elevation Pictures, Téléfilm Canada, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, FilmNation Entertainment, No Trace Camping

Genre

Drama, Thriller

Budget

$13 000 000

Revenue

$35 401 758

Website

https://a24films.com/films/room

Director

Lenny Abrahamson

Actors

Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers, Tom McCamus, William H. Macy, Cas Anvar, Amanda Brugel, Wendy Crewson, Joe Pingue
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Scenario

Producer

Ed Guiney, David Gross, Tessa Ross, Andrew Lowe, Keith Potter, Rose Garnett, Emma Donoghue, Jesse Shapira, Jeff Arkuss, David Kosse

Operator

Danny Cohen

Composer

Stephen Rennicks

Artist

Jason McQuarrie

Audition

Fiona Weir, Robin D. Cook

Editing

Nathan Nugent
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• Actress Brie Larson secluded herself for a whole month and went on a very strict diet in order to better understand the psychological and physical state of her character.
• A film adaptation of Emma Donoghue's bestselling novel "Room" (2010). The idea for the book came to her when Donoghue learned about Felix, a five-year-old, one of the children involved in the so-called "Josef Fritzl case." For many years, Fritzl kept his own daughter locked in a basement, where she bore him seven children, including Felix.
• As Brie Larson later stated, she intentionally did not wash during filming.
• Old Nick is sometimes used as a name for the devil in Catholicism. In the film, Nick is the name of the main antagonist.
• In scenes where Jack has long hair, Jacob Tremblay wears a wig.
• Emma Watson, Rooney Mara, Shailene Woodley, and Mia Wasikowska were all considered for the role of Joy.
• Filming took place in Toronto and Ontario, although the police officers in the film portray officers from the Akron Police Department in Akron, Ohio, USA.
• Production designer Ethan Tobman wanted snow to be included in the final episode, but using artificial snow would have exceeded the budget, so the idea had to be rejected. Fortunately, it actually snowed when filming began.
• Jacob Tremblay couldn't bring himself to yell at Brie Larson in the scene with the birthday cake that had no candles. The young actor was only able to do it when everyone present on set jumped around and yelled, showing him what to do and trying not to get in front of the cameras.
• A Phantom Planet poster can be seen in Joy's bedroom in her mother's house. The band's vocalist, Alex Greenwald, is dating Brie Larson.
• In Ma's parents' house, Nancy is reading Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief" (2005). Max, one of the central characters in the book, spent a long time hiding from the Nazis in the basement of the Hubermanns' house.
• At her parents' house, Ma Nancy is reading Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief" (2005). Max, one of the central characters in the book, spent a long time hiding from the fascists in the basement of the Hubermanns' house.