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Five-year-old Jack knows only the locked room where his kidnapped mother Joy has raised him and plans their escape.

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Five-year-old Jack lives with mother Joy inside a locked garden shed he calls Room, believing its objects comprise the world. Joy has protected his development during years of captivity, but as he grows she begins preparing him for escape and an unimaginable outside.

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Lenny Abrahamson makes confinement and freedom equally disorienting through Jack's perspective, Larson's protective Joy, and attention to recovery beyond escape.

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Under Lenny Abrahamson, skylight, wardrobe, rolled carpet, television, eggshells, close lenses, and Jack's narration make Room a child's coherent universe—Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay show survival as relationship and later readjustment.

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Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250237AFI 100—
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Great Cinema Master List scores

Greatness7.7
Engagement8.0
Ease8.0

English · R
Narrative Feature
Mood: Tense & Absorbing