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Room(2015)
Released
2015 · FILM

Room

A desperate mother trapped in a claustrophobic underground bunker must outwit her sadistic captor and find a way to escape before starvation and abuse destroy the fragile world she’s built for her young son.

“Love knows no boundaries.”

Directed by
Lenny Abrahamson, Patrick Arias
Written by
Emma Donoghue, Rob Ballantyne
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
118 min
DramaThriller

Synopsis

A woman and her young son are held captive for seven years in an enclosed space before they are finally freed, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 207+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Nathan NugentShot by Danny CohenScored by Stephen RennicksDesigned by Ethan TobmanSound by Niall BradyCostumes by Derek J BaskervilleStunts by Jean FrenetteVFX by Dave Axford

Box Office

2015 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$35.4M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$35.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $14.7M — 41% of worldwide · International: $20.7M (59%)

Opening weekend: $118K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $155K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Raumde
  • Raum - Liebe kennt keine Grenzende
  • (Croatian)Soba
Release dates around the world2 countries · show
  • United StatesSep 4, 2015
  • CanadaSep 15, 2015

Companies

ProductionA24, Element Pictures, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, Film4

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