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Synopsis

Originally marketed as a serious drama "with the spirit of Tennessee Williams, The Room was such a spectacular failure in all aspects that it achieved ‘so bad it’s good’ cult status and now is advertised as “black comedy” due to the unintentionally hilarious nature of the film.

An American black comedy about love and passion, betrayal and lies. It depicts the depths of friendship and relationships in one’s life and raises life’s real and most asked question: “Can you ever really trust anyone?…Are you ready to see reflections of your life?” A successful banker, Johnny, is madly in love with his fiancé, Lisa, and plans to be married next month. His plans take a horrid turn when he finds the truth about Lisa and the people surrounding him.

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Tommy Wiseau

Tommy Wiseau is an actor, writer and filmmaker, who made the cult hit film The Room, which has screened in Los Angeles since 2003. The film is about a love triangle between a man, his fiance, and his best friend. While some call the film melodramatic, Wiseau promotes the film as a black comedy. —http://www.mahalo.com/tommy-wiseau 

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Smooj Betty Phace

5May13

I seriously love this film -- real love, not the ironic hipster bullshit. It's such an awful piece of cinema, but it's also so delighful, entertaining (if you are really into movies) and a true labor of love from the author... even if the author, Tommy Wiseau, is a complete nut.

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Ross Patterson

12Apr13

A misogynist vanity project made by someone who is quite clearly borderline autistic. 5/5

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Silenzio

20Mar13

So awful it is astonishing...

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Duncan Gray

12Mar13

Oh hai, MUBI!

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By tonymur​phylee on September 21, 2010

One of the most indescribably weird films I’ve ever seen, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room has been hailed by many as “the Citizen Kane of bad movies”. I can see why. It is a badly shot, nonsensical, piece…  read review

Deconstructing the Cinema Experience, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Spoons

By David Heslin on July 23, 2010

What can be written about The Room that hasn’t already been said? In a sense, it’s a critic’s dream: a film that is so profoundly incompetent that no level of ridicule can be considered excessive…  read review

Listen to your Mother...

By Blasphe​mer on April 26, 2010

Like a lazy-eyed, snaggletoothed cougar, her acrid breath waking you in the morning as she gazes into your eyes, grinning sheepishly, her warm, flaccid flapjacks pressing up against you, remnants of…  read review

This movie tears me apart

By Jake Cole on April 20, 2010

The Room is the great auterial work of the modern age. Its mastermind, Tommy Wiseau, produced, wrote, directed and starred in this incisive portrait of blind love and betrayal, much in the same way…  read review

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