Few relationship dramas are as closely tied to one person as The Room. Tommy Wiseau directs it and also leads its cast, telling a 99-minute story about a San Francisco banker whose comfortable life is undone by the two people he trusts most.
What is The Room about?
Johnny appears to have everything in order. He does well at the bank where he works, he shares a townhouse in San Francisco with Lisa, the woman he is about to marry, and he counts Mark as his closest friend. Then Lisa loses interest. No single event explains the change; she simply grows tired of the man she is engaged to and sets out to draw Mark into an affair. From that point the film stays with the three of them and the pressure that builds between them: a fiancé who has no idea what is coming, a friend pulled between loyalty and temptation, and a woman who has decided she wants something else. Once that line is crossed, the trust holding this small circle together begins to give way.
About the cast
Tommy Wiseau is first-billed in addition to directing. Juliette Danielle and Greg Sestero follow him in the cast list, and the supporting names are Philip Haldiman, Carolyn Minnott, Robyn Paris, Dan Janjigian and Kyle Vogt. With a story that turns on only three central figures, much of the running time rests on a handful of performers.
Context & significance
The Room is an American production and appears in the K-Time catalogue under the year 2019. Its genre tags are drama, thriller, mystery and science fiction, though the premise is an intimate one: an engagement, a friendship and a betrayal inside a single San Francisco household. There are no large set pieces in that outline. The stakes are personal, and the tension comes from who knows what, and when. Viewers drawn to stories about love triangles, broken loyalty and the slow collapse of a relationship will recognise the territory. It is also a clear example of a project shaped by one person on both sides of the camera, since Wiseau is credited as director and as lead actor. The running time is 99 minutes.
Watching The Room on Ktime
The Room plays on K-Time in its original audio; the catalogue does not list a Persian dub or Persian subtitles for this title. To watch, sign in to a K-Time account, while this page stays free to read for everyone. K-Time serves Persian-speaking viewers abroad, and its menus, search and title pages are all available in Farsi.