All-star cast featured in acclaimed film based on best-selling novel and true story
Sedona AZ (December 8, 2015) – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the critical sensation “Room” — based on the best-selling novel and true story — showing Dec. 11-17 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
“Room” features an award-winning ensemble cast including Brie Larson and Academy Award nominees Joan Allen and William H. Macy.
Both highly suspenseful and deeply emotional, “Room” is a unique and unexpectedly tender exploration of the boundless love between a mother and her child under the most harrowing of circumstances.
Love knows no boundaries. “Room” tells the extraordinary story of Jack (Jacob Tremblay in a breakout performance), a spirited 5-year-old who is looked after by his loving and devoted Ma (Brie Larson). Like any good mother, Ma dedicates herself to keeping Jack happy and safe, nurturing him with warmth and love and doing typical things like playing games and telling stories. Their life, however, is anything but typical — they are trapped — confined to a windowless, 10-by-10-foot space, which Ma has euphemistically named “Room”.
Ma has created a whole universe for Jack within Room, and she will stop at nothing to ensure that, even in this treacherous environment, Jack is able to live a complete and fulfilling life. But as Jack’s curiosity about their situation grows, and Ma’s resilience reaches its breaking point, they enact a risky plan to escape, ultimately bringing them face-to-face with what may turn out to be the scariest thing yet: the real world.
At once a taut narrative of captivity and freedom, an imaginative trip into the wonders of childhood, and a profound portrait of a family’s bonds and fortitude, “Room” is a beautifully transcendent experience based on the award-winning global bestseller by Emma Donoghue. Director Lenny Abrahamson remains faithful to the novel while bringing Jack, Ma and their entirely singular world to heart-pounding and intensely cinematic life. “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 parents and children.
“A triumph! One of the most emotional experiences I have had in a theatre in a very long time,” raves Pete Hammond, Deadline Hollywood.
“The most impressive piece of filmmaking I’ve seen in 2015 and one of the best movies of the decade!” says Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times.
“Room” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre Dec. 11-17. Showtimes will be 7 p.m. on Friday, Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 11, 14 and 15; and 4 p.m. on Saturday, Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 12, 16 and 17.
Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.
