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The Room

Article published 31st May 10
The Room Watch

What:
The Room

Where:
FourThousand presents The Room Brisbane premiere - screening for one night only! Tribal Theatre, 346 George St, City

When:
Fri Jun 11, 8pm for 8.30pm start

How much:
Tickets are $10 on the door. Entry fee is highly likely include a free donut and quite possibly a beer too (p.s - tickets available now from the Candy Bar at Tribal if you want to secure a seat)

Watch the trailer:
Here

Win:
Thanks to Tribal Theatre we 5 dbl passes to give away. To enter, email your full name to win@fourthousand.com.au with the subject line 'Lisa, you're tearing me A-PART!'

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There's something shameful about mocking bad movies. As Patton Oswalt points out, even the worst movies had a cast and crew who believed in their work. And Tommy Wiseau has never stopped believing. Although he sounds like Arnie and looks like a cross between Steven Seagal and Fabio, Wiseau sees himself as the heir to Tennessee Williams.

His magnum opus The Room, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, is so comprehensively bad that it deserves to be regarded with baffled awe. Nobody knows why it is called The Room, least of all Wiseau. You must simply let it wash over you and I guarantee your life will be changed forever.

It's essentially a love triangle between Johnny (Wiseau), his fiancée Lisa (Juliette Danielle) and his best friend, Mark (Greg Sestero, also the line producer). Then there's Lisa's mum, an orphan called Denny (played by a 40-year-old man), a doggie, and much, much more.

The Room sank without trace after its 2003 release, but curious people tracked it down after noticing the LA billboard Tommy had booked. Now people holler the dialogue at late-night screenings and clap raucously during the bow-chicka-wow-wow sex scenes.

Wiseau actually attends these screenings. Faced with hundreds of people laughing at his masterpiece, a lesser man might have lost faith, but Wiseau has happily re-badged The Room as a ‘black comedy'. In our snarky, FAIL-obsessed times, this is admirable. But it begs the question, ‘Can you really truust aanyone?'

By Mel Campbell

Format: DVD

Genre: Comedy

Keywords: Tommy Wiseau, Comedy

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