A little boy is held captive in a room with his mother since his birth, so he has never known the world outside.A little boy is held captive in a room with his mother since his birth, so he has never known the world outside.A little boy is held captive in a room with his mother since his birth, so he has never known the world outside.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 108 wins & 141 nominations total
Storyline
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- TriviaBrie Larson isolated herself in her home for a month without a phone or internet and followed a strict diet to understand what Ma and Jack were going through. Larson has said that because she considers herself an introvert who prefers to stay at home, she thought that her month of isolation would be a vacation, but towards the last week, she became very depressed and would cry all day.
- GoofsAs Jack is lying face-up, his head at the tailgate of the truck, he beholds the naked sky for the first time. The world is passing by - from top to bottom of the screen. This is exactly the opposite of how he would see it from his established perspective. This is no small error for arguably the most beautiful moment in the film.
- Quotes
Jack: I've been in the world 37 hours. I've seen pancakes, and a stairs, and birds, and windows, and hundreds of cars. And clouds, and police, and doctors, and grandma and grandpa. But Ma says they don't live together in the hammock house anymore. Grandma lives there with her friend Leo now. And Grandpa lives far away. I've seen persons with different faces, and bigness, and smells, talking all together. The world's like all TV planets on at the same time, so I don't know which way to look and listen. There's doors and... more doors. And behind all the doors, there's another inside, and another outside. And things happen, happen, HAPPENING. It never stops. Plus, the world's always changing brightness, and hotness. And there's invisible germs floating everywhere. When I was small, I only knew small things. But now I'm five, I know EVERYTHING!
- Crazy creditsIn the "Special Thanks to" part of the credit, there's the name of Jack White, the guitarist and vocalist of the band The White Stripes, a poster of which can be seen in a scene in Joy's bedroom.
- SoundtracksBag Fight
Written by Klaus Badelt and Andrew Raiher
Performed by Klaus Badelt, Daniel Rojas, and Andrew Raiher
Published by KB Publishing and A Olympus Pictures
Courtesy of Wunderhorn Music, Inc.
If you already know some of the whys because of the trailer or reading the story, don't be afraid though. The movie moves forward and it does not stay stagnant at all. That is true regarding the story, but the characters have some other issues to solve. Talking about solving, you won't get all the answers for this, but this is a pretty good and strong depiction psychologically speaking of what persons go through, without getting into their heads. Great acting and drama make this a great movie ... if you like the genre that is of course.
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- Also known as
- La Habitacion
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Box office
- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $14,677,654
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $118,298
- Oct 18, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $35,402,766
- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- 2.39 : 1