Room - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[phyllis]

In Joy's mother's house, Nancy reads "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. Max, one of the primary characters, spends a prolonged period hiding in the basement of a German home to avoid the Nazis.

[toni]

This film, while not adapted from any real-life sources, shares several similarities with the case of Amanda Berry, one of three young women held captive for over a decade in Cleveland, Ohio by Ariel Castro. Berry was kidnapped, raped by her kidnapper and bore his child. She also managed to escape with her child after spending years locked in a shuttered room. The source novel for the movie was published in mid-2010, three years before Castro's crimes were discovered.

[carla]

Joy's teenage bedroom features a poster of Leonardo DiCaprio. DiCaprio portrays a character in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) who is also unjustly imprisoned.

[ruby]

The film was largely shot in sequence to make it easier for Jacob Tremblay to perform as his character evolves.

[claude]

Megan Park filmed scenes for the film as Joy's friend from high school, but her scenes were ultimately cut.

[eli]

Nancy / grandma is reading a copy of The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, which is about the ability of books to feed the soul. This is reminiscent of how, through books, Ma's stories, and television, Jack's world was made larger than the confines of room.

[ethel]

Jacob Tremblay won Best Young Actor at The 2016 Critics Choice Awards for his role as Jack.

[tamara]

There is a poster of Radiohead's OK Computer album on the wall in Joy's bedroom.

[fred]

Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay's birthdays are only four days apart, October 1 and October 5, respectively.

[albert]

Jacob Tremblay, though an experienced actor, could not bring himself to yell at Brie Larson in the scene where he is angry about his birthday cake having no candles. Finally, director Lenny Abrahamson had the entire cast and crew start jumping up and down, yelling and screaming until he was able to do it himself.