Room, the Unadaptable Novel that Wasn’t

RoomDirected by Lenny AbrahamsonOpens October 16
The first time we see the woman (Brie Larson) and her son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), it is not immediately clear that something is wrong. The evidence quickly accumulates, but for a few moments, the mother-son bonding obscures the terrifying situation: The woman was abducted at seventeen, stuck in a locked, modified, and soundproofed shed, and kept as a sexual slave with what appears to be an air of domestication, as if Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), as s