The “Citizen Kane of bad films” plays on the big screen, followed by a Q&A with The Room’s co-star Greg Sestero and exclusive tribute footage starring Bob Odenkirk.
Greg Sestero is the co-star of cult film The Room and best-selling author of the ‘The Disaster Artist’, a memoir of his time as an aspiring actor in Hollywood, which led to his bizarre friendship with the mysterious and iconoclastic director of The Room, Tommy Wiseau.
The premise behind The Room is a simple one. It is the story of a banker named Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) who suspects that his fiancée Lisa may be sleeping with his best friend Mark (Greg Sestero).
However, surrounding this simple love triangle is a car-crash of cinematic head-scratching conundrums. Various subplots are introduced and then either ignored or not resolved (such as the fact Lisa’s mother is suffering from cancer), rooftop screens are done with awful green-screen effects, scenes are frequently out of focus and then there are the two awkwardly long and incredibly unerotic sex scenes (the latter of which simply reuses footage from the first).
