Director Lenny Abrahamson’s (Frank) new film, adapted for the screen by Emma Donoghue from her 2010 Man Booker-shortlisted novel of the same title, starts with a creation myth. The narrator, five-year-old Jack (Jacob Tremblay), is describing the genesis of his entire universe, which consists only of the shabby objects contained within the confined interior of a small shed called “Room.” A skylight frames an empty sky, the only view to the outside world, which Jack doesn’t realize exists. He and his mom Joy (Brie Larson), known only as Ma within Jack’s limited point of view, are the sole inhabitants of this space.
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