Room was filmed mostly sequentially, which meant Larson and Tremblay spent the first half of the 10-week shoot squashed in a 10-by-15-foot space with Abrahamson and a crew.

The movie is based on Emma Donoghue's best-selling book about a woman who's been kidnapped and had to raise her son in captivity. Room is directed by Irish filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson.

Room (2015) Film Review, a movie directed by Lenny Abrahamson, and starring Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Amanda Brugel, William H. Macy, Joan ...

Movie Review ‘Room’ addresses trauma and wonderment By Ty Burr Globe Staff,October 22, 2015, 6:00 p.m.

In this Wed., Sept. 30, 2015 photo, actress Brie Larson poses for a portrait at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. Larson stars as Ma in the new film, "Room." The movie opens in U.S. theaters ...

Neustadter said it was a ball. "The movie is so strange, it’s helpful to experience The Room with an audience," says Neustadter. "It's the bizarreness of the whole thing.

By now, you may have heard of “Room,” the critically acclaimed, deeply-disturbing-yet-riveting movie about a young woman and her son who have been held prisoner in a shed for years.

ROOM demonstrates the triumphant power of familial love even in the darkest of circumstances, and is sure to take its place among the most emotionally affecting films to ever explore the bond between ...