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On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Room is a 2015 drama film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Room temperature butter Donoghue, based on her 2010 novel of the same name.
The film was a co-production of Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States and was shot in Toronto, with the eponymous 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. Cited as one of the best films of the year, Room received numerous awards and nominations. At the 88th Academy Awards, Room received four nominations, including Best Picture. In Akron, Ohio, 24-year-old Joy Newsome and her five-year-old son Jack live in a squalid shed they call “Room”. They are captives of a man they call “Old Nick”, Jack’s biological father, who abducted Joy seven years prior and routinely rapes her while Jack sleeps in the closet.
Old Nick tells Joy that he has lost his job and may not be able to afford their supplies in the future. That night, Jack is overcome with curiosity and ventures out of the closet while Old Nick is asleep in bed with his mother. Joy is horrified when she awakens and sees their interaction, slapping Old Nick away. As punishment, he cuts their heat and power. Joy plans to help Jack escape Room by telling Old Nick that Jack has died from his illness. She wraps Jack in a carpet and has him play dead, telling him to run to the first person he sees for help. Falling for the ruse, Old Nick places Jack in the back of his pickup truck and drives through a residential neighborhood.
Although stunned by his first exposure to the outside world, Jack jumps from the truck and attracts the attention of a passerby. Reunited with her family, Joy learns that her parents have divorced and that her mother has a new partner, Leo. She returns with Jack to her childhood home where her mother and Leo live. Her father cannot accept Jack as his grandchild and leaves. Jack struggles to adjust to life in the larger world, speaking only to his mother and expressing a desire to return to Room. Jack misses his mother but begins to settle into his new life. He bonds with his new family, meets Leo’s dog, Seamus, and makes friends with a boy his age.
Believing his long hair will give Joy the strength she needs to recover, Jack has his grandmother cut it for him so he can send it to her. Joy returns home and apologizes for her suicide attempt, thanking Jack for saving her life again. After this Joy and Jack start to embrace life and do many activities that they enjoy. Emma Donoghue, who also wrote the novel on which the film is based, wrote the screenplay for the film before the novel was published in 2010. In 2012, Abrahamson and Donoghue spent one week at her house in London, Ontario as they revised the screenplay. She served as executive producer and was included in major filmmaking decisions. Emma Watson, Rooney Mara, Shailene Woodley and Mia Wasikowska were considered for the role of Joy.
The filmmakers considered dozens of child actors for Jack before casting seven-year-old Jacob Tremblay from Vancouver. Tremblay said his role was not hard “because I was playing a happy child” unaware of the sinister nature of Room. In preparation for her own role, Allen did not consult real mothers of kidnapped children, but said she reflected on her own experiences “in a mall when my daughter was little and I look around and within a flash she’s not there”. Abrahamson used only one Room set, wanting to create an authentic experience for Tremblay. Because the scenes set outside Room were filmed after the scenes inside, the crew was initially eager to leave the cramped space, expecting that the rest of the film would be easy.
However, they had difficulty adjusting to the cold weather, traffic and crowds in Toronto. Cohen used a Panavision Primos lens on a Red Epic Dragon camera, saying “The Primos and using Kino Flos, which is more akin to fluorescent lighting, gave Room a certain texture, a certain look. Editor Nathan Nugent served as second-unit director. He described his editing of Room as simplistic, keeping the acting intact, while working in Dublin for five months. Prior to production, A24 acquired U.
