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Room (2015 film) Room. (2015 film) Room is a 2015 internationally co-produced survival psychological drama film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Emma Donoghue, based on her 2010 novel. It stars Brie Larson as a young woman who has been held captive for seven years and whose five-year-old son (Jacob Tremblay) was born in captivity.
978-0-330-53397-3. Preceded by. The Sealed Letter. Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. [1] Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case.
The 2009 true crime book Secrets in the Cellar by John Glatt details the case. Room author Emma Donoghue was inspired by the crimes, and her novel inspired a film adaptation with the same name. In 2021, Lifetime released a film inspired by the Fritzl case titled Girl in the Basement which is part of Lifetime's "Ripped from the Headlines ...
Release. May 6, 1996. (1996-05-06) No One Would Tell is a 1996 American teen crime drama television film directed by Noel Nosseck from an original script by Steven Loring. The film premiered on NBC on May 6, 1996. It is based on the true story of 14-year-old Amy Carnevale, who was physically abused and murdered by her 16-year-old boyfriend ...
A Beautiful Mind (film) A Beautiful Mind. (film) A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film about the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, played by Russell Crowe. The film is directed by Ron Howard based on a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the 1998 biography by Sylvia Nasar.
The Crowded Room is a psychological drama series created for AppleTV+ by Akiva Goldsman, the screenwriter best known for movies like A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code, based on the arrest of ...
William Campbell (James Earl Jones) is a wealthy businessman who has just lost his wife. He decides to make good on a promise he made her by opening a free reading room in an inner-city neighborhood where he grew up. Despite his good intentions, problems in the neighborhood threaten his establishment, especially from local gang members and a ...
Box office. $43.1 million. Freedom Writers is a 2007 American biographical drama film written and directed by Richard LaGravenese and starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey and Mario. It is based on the 1999 book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell and students who compiled the book out of real diary ...