Room

Name: Room
Genre: Drama
Released: June 28, 2006
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 64

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Hart Sharp Video | Release Date: June 28, 2006

Summary: Julia Barker is late for work at the Paradise Bingo, again. Struggling to make ends meet and to raise her daughters, Julia suppresses her own needs and desires to support her family. But the headaches, excruciating migraines, keep coming. Inside her splitting mind, disturbing visions erupt: water, rafters and then the blinding white windowsJulia Barker is late for work at the Paradise Bingo, again. Struggling to make ends meet and to raise her daughters, Julia suppresses her own needs and desires to support her family. But the headaches, excruciating migraines, keep coming. Inside her splitting mind, disturbing visions erupt: water, rafters and then the blinding white windows of a warehouse sized room. The space is menacing, mysterious and seductive. The visions intensify and soon there are signs. Julia knows that she must find the room. Desperate, she robs the Bingo hall, abandons her family and flies to New York. Her pilgrimage has begun. (Celluloid Dreams)… Expand

Director: Kyle Henry

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 75 min

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Kimberley Jones

For a film about looking for a sign, looking for solace, Room quite brazenly offers neither. It isn't an easy film, but the world's already got plenty of easy and easily digestible films. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

The plot of the indie feature Room is, shall we say, sketchy. But that's a minor annoyance thanks to a gutsy performance by Cyndi Williams and vibrating cinematography by P.J. Raval. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Winner of the John Cassavetes Award for Best Feature Under $500K at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards, Henry's film is beautifully shot and extraordinarily well acted by Williams. Read full review

Nathan Lee

Room is an existential horror film, a parable of the war against terror being waged in Julia's psyche. Read full review

Ed Halter

One of those rare American indies that confidently and successfully propose their own narrative logic, drawing viewers into a mental puzzle that may not contain a single clear solution. Read full review

J.R. Jones

Packs a punch in its first act with a passionate lead performance by Cyndi Williams and a painfully concrete sense of modern life closing in. But gradually it slips into the indie paradigm of an alienated soul rushing into darkness, climaxing with a semiabstract montage sequence that's more rhetorical than dramatic. Read full review

Michael Esposito

Williams does a fine job with her role. I was pulling for her throughout her dreary journey. It's too bad it didn't get anywhere. Read full review

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JannetP.

Jul 7, 2006

ROOM is an interesting, moving, and troubling film

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ChadS.

Mar 23, 2007

When Julia(Cyndi Williams) ditches her family to search for the room that materializes itself from a series of fainting spells(why doesn't anybody suggest a hospital?), the filmmaker pointedly assures the audience that she isn't having a "I've Never Been to Me" declaration of When Julia(Cyndi Williams) ditches her family to search for the room that materializes itself from a series of fainting spells(why doesn't anybody suggest a hospital?), the filmmaker pointedly assures the audience that she isn't having a "I've Never Been to Me" declaration of independence. She walks into a room, the wrong room; it's a room full of women doing deep relaxation exercises. Julia quietly walks out. Her quest is not a feminist one. So what is the point of Julia's journey? Updates about the Iraqi War stream from televisions and radios throughout "Room", which Julia(like you and me) converts largely into background noise, offers a tantalyzing clue to understanding the nature of this woman's vision. Julia, like President Bush, of course, is from Texas. If she's a conservative, maybe the filmmaker is saying that the room doesn't exist, just like how Bush's Iraq doesn't exist. The room is a lie. Julia's journey to New York might be a metaphor for the deployment of our soldiers in Iraq. If your state of mind is a political one, "Room" will seem engrossing rather than mind-numbing.… Expand

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babau

Dec 28, 2008

Ok people, this has got to be the worst, i repeat, WORST, movie ever! forget the chubby woman acting as some sad middle age mid-america wife on mushrooms - it's the so-called director that should immedially quit pretending to be a movie artiste. no one is ever going to give me back the Ok people, this has got to be the worst, i repeat, WORST, movie ever! forget the chubby woman acting as some sad middle age mid-america wife on mushrooms - it's the so-called director that should immedially quit pretending to be a movie artiste. no one is ever going to give me back the 73 minutes i just wasted watching this piece of garbage!! seriously people, get a fucking clue on life and stop calling yourselves 'indie lovers'. this ain't indie stuff. this is some serious crap.… Expand

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NicoleD.

Jan 5, 2009

Ok people, this has got to be the worst, i repeat, WORST, movie ever! forget the chubby woman acting as some sad middle age mid-america wife on mushrooms - it's the so-called director that should immedially quit pretending to be a movie artiste. no one is ever going to give me back the Ok people, this has got to be the worst, i repeat, WORST, movie ever! forget the chubby woman acting as some sad middle age mid-america wife on mushrooms - it's the so-called director that should immedially quit pretending to be a movie artiste. no one is ever going to give me back the 73 minutes i just wasted watching this piece of garbage!! seriously people, get a clue on life and stop calling yourselves 'indie lovers'. this ain't indie stuff. this is some serious crap.… Expand

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