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The Room

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A successful banker's (Tommy Wiseau) fiancee (Juliette Danielle) tempts and manipulates his best friend (Greg Sestero).
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A bona fide classic of midnight cinema, Tommy Wiseau's misguided masterpiece subverts the rules of filmmaking with a boundless enthusiasm that renders such mundanities as acting, screenwriting, and cinematography utterly irrelevant. You will never see a football the same way again.

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Nick Schager The Daily Beast It is, in short, the ne plus ultra of crap. A trash masterpiece. Nov 29, 2017 Full Review Jason Bailey Flavorwire If there is a 21st-century Edward D. Wood Jr., it is probably Tommy Wiseau. Jun 18, 2016 Full Review Chris Stuckmann ChrisStuckmann.com Trust me, you've gotta check this thing out at least once, especially if you like football. Rated: F Apr 17, 2015 Full Review Paul Emmanuel Enicola Movie-Blogger.com It takes a special kind of ‘bad’ to gain a cult following, let alone a film that tries a little too hard. And for all its intents and purposes, “The Room” is that movie. Rated: 0.5/5 Aug 24, 2024 Full Review Ray Pride Newcity I bet Wiseau’s first feature could make Ed Wood’s bones dance... The level of genius necessary to emulate authentic incompetence would approach Borgesian heights: there will be no pastiche called “Pierre Menard, Director of ‘The Room." Rated: 3/10 Nov 19, 2023 Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills An earnest yuppie take on Arthur Milleresque soul searching, as conceived by a space alien with very little grasp on ordinary human behavior... Jun 8, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Josh Suarez Watched it with a live Q&A with Greg Sestero. Awesome time! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/22 Full Review Fallopia Tuba Oh, it sucked! It was a terrible movie about horrible people doing awful things to each other! At the same time it was a breathtaking travelogue of San Francisco, so that was something. But otherwise, the movie had no redeeming qualities—but at least I fully expected that. Put it in the "so bad it's good" category I'd probably see it again, if only for the camp value. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/11/21 Full Review Kay It’s so bad that it’s good Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/26/21 Full Review Audience Member Seriously, watch this with your friends. I watched this on a Friday night with my 5 friends (2 of whom were high) and we had a blast. The HORRIBLE and CRINGE green screen, acting, dialogue, drama, characters, plot, directing, and more are truly hilarious enough to appreciate. Tommy Wiseau certainly has the ambition to be SO bad, but so unforgettably and unapologetically bad that I can’t help but respect it. I really should watch the documentary showing how this movie was made. This is truly timeless in certain ways and I was always curious to watch it. Actually very happy that I did and with a hilarious group nonetheless! I’m not sure what would’ve happened or how I would’ve reacted if I watched it alone. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/19/25 Full Review Thomas G It is a movie that exists Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 07/12/25 Full Review Philswif P If there is one word that I would use to describe The Room, it would be "disastrous". The Room is truly awful, but I couldn't recommend it enough, it is a once in a lifetime experience watching this movie. To sum it all up, Tommy Wiseau is an awful writer, director, and actor, who greets everyone with the most genuine "oh, hi" you will ever hear, has to introduce a new superfluous conflict every ten or twenty minutes (half of which are never mentioned again), and writes a couple of sentences per character that they repeat through-out the entire movie. Truly, a horrible film, but I can't recommend it enough, you will laugh your ass off. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 07/09/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A successful banker's (Tommy Wiseau) fiancee (Juliette Danielle) tempts and manipulates his best friend (Greg Sestero).
Director
Tommy Wiseau
Screenwriter
Tommy Wiseau
Distributor
Wiseau-Films, Chloë Productions, TPW Films
Production Co
TPW Films, Chloe Productions, Wiseau-Films
Rating
R (Brief Violence|Sexuality|Language)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 27, 2003, Limited
Runtime
1h 39m