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Product Details:
Actors:
Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, Peter Jacobson, Dennis Christopher, April Grace
Format:
Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language:
English, Spanish
Number of Discs:
2
Studio:
Lions Gate
Run Time:
270 minutes
DVD Release Date:
April 03, 2007
Average Customer Rating:
based on 80 reviews
Description:
In the 1960s, an unknown event at the Sunshine Motel caused ordinary things in Room 10 to transform into items of wonder. The room and its contents gained unique and inexplicable properties, transforming them from mundane things into indestructible Objects with extraordinary powers that are sought after by anyone who knows their secrets. Police Det. Joe Miller (Peter Krause) first learns of The Room when he unwittingly comes across the most powerful and coveted Object of them all: the Key. His life immediately turns upside down as his young daughter becomes lost in the room and Joe is the target of shadowy figures who will stop at nothing to take from him his only hope of saving her - the Key.
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
I loved it but you decideJan 01, 2009 I loved this Sci Fi Channel miniseries. I'm going to write a few spoilers pertaining to the show's setup to help you decide if you want to buy this. Please don't read on if you don't want any spoilers.
First of all, it's Science Fiction but set in the real world with the flavor of a cop show. The major premise of the show is that a cop finds a key that causes any door the key is used on to open to Room #10 of the Sunshine hotel as the room appeared in 1961, outside of Gallup New Mexico. So, you walk up to the door in your house but instead of using your key, you use this special key, and viola! the door opens to this room that is lost in time. Inside the room, it looks like its 1961 in the middle of the day, on a bright sunny day. You get the ebbie jeebies when you look at the room - it was very well done by Sci Fi. The room only has one door. The story does not explore what happens if you try to break a window and step into this weird world that the key opens or anything like that. When you go to leave the room, the door opens to whatever place you're thinking of that has a room. So you can travel across the globe by going through the lost room. With me so far? One more thing, the room resets everytime anybody leaves with the key... that is to say if you walk in and leave your coat, if you come back, the coat will be gone, apparently lost, forever.
Ok, well the room apparently was originally outfitted with everything that would typically be in an occupied 1960s style hotel room like a clock, a pen, clothes, comb, etc. Over the years, apparently, the people who have used the special key to this lost room have removed many of these typical items. The items appear to have special and just plain "weird" powers in the real world and the items, known as objects, are indistructible in the real world. For example, a bus ticket has the effect of transporting anyone who comes into contact with it to Gallup New Mexico in today's world and the bus pass is impossible to tear up or destroy. The comb, appears to stop time for a few seconds while the person runs the comb through their hair. Etc, etc. If you take an object into the lost room with your lost room key, and leave it in there, when the room resets, the object reverts back to where it was in 1961. Objects can be destroyed once in the room but when the room resets, a new similar object will appear to replace it.
With me so far...pretty out there. In the real world, at the Sunshine Motel, there is no room #10 only 9 rooms in the motel.
Again, the story has a cop finding the lost room key. The cop is an average Joe who would probably think this whole lost room and key thig is interesting and the story probably wouldn't have progressed beyond that. However, accidentally, his daughter winds up in the lost room and the door closes on her and when he goes back into the lost room with the key the room has reset and his young daughter is lost.
This sends our poor cop on a quest to find out as much as he can about the lost room and the mysterious objects in an effort to save his daughter. I won't spoil it from there but suffice it to say that he winds up finding all kinds of weird things like cults surrounding the lost room and the mysterious objects.
All kinds of theories float around in the show about how the room came to be lost in time/space/another dimension etc. One of the best things to me about this show is that they don't explain everything about the room or the objects or what happened. This is mostly a cop show about a man trying to save his daughter under some decidedly weird circumstances and against bands of people who act weird because they're mostly obsessed with the objects and the lost room.
I found it a very entertaining miniseries and it would be great if they made at least another miniseries surrounding this premise/concept. If you suspend disbelief and enjoy cop shows, this is a wonderfully entertaining miniseries. I hope this helps you make a decision.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Lost RoomDec 28, 2008 If you have not seen this you are missing out big time. One of the best Mini-Series made.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
A cut aboveDec 25, 2008 SciFi channel was foolish to pull this after just a few episodes. Remember, Star Trek was a total failure when first released. It only gained cult status years after. I guess some bean counter at SciFi forgot to study the history of SciFi TV. We all lose.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
The lost room is excellentDec 16, 2008 I was a six feet under fan. And I loved the lost room. It kept me watching and wanting more..wishing it had been an ongoing show rather than just a mini series. I loved it.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
One of Sci-Fi's top mini-seriesDec 16, 2008 Can't really say much else, I don't know where to begin. Suspense, mystery and fantasy, with a little humor mixed in. Plus, ends with so much room for a sequel, you're left wondering "what will they do next?"
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