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The Lost Room
| Actor(s): Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, Kevin Pollak, Elle Fanning, Roger Bart Director(s): Craig R. Baxley, Michael W. Watkins 9 |
Movie Details
| MPAA Rating: NR Movie Release: 2006 DVD Release: 04/03/2007 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 2 Number of Discs: 2 Run Time: 4 hrs 44 mins Studio: Lionsgate Members Wishing: 9 Genres: Science Fiction, Supernatural Drama |
DVD Synopsis
A dying man entrusts a straight-shooting police detective with the key to a timeless mystery, thrusting the unsuspecting lawman into a deadly world where everyday objects have an unusual influence over reality as the result of an inexplicable rift in time and space. By all accounts the Sunshine Motel was one indistinguishable from any one of the countless other roadside lodges which dot Route 66. On the typical morning of an otherwise ordinary day, however, the contents in room ten of the Sunshine Motel are suddenly transformed into indestructible objects of immeasurable value. There's a comb with the power to stop time when the user runs it through their hair, and a pair of glasses that can inhibit combustion anywhere in a twenty-yard radius. When Police Detective Joe Miller (Peter Krause) is given the most powerful of all the objects - the key to room ten - he is quickly targeted for death by the various cabals that seek to collect the objects; some of the cabals want to collect to objects to achieve their own nefarious means, others simply to prevent them from falling into the wring hands. Things go from bad to worse for Detective Miller when his young daughter disappears in the room and he must race to solve the mystery of this strange phenomenon before he is caught in the crosshairs and his little girl disappears forever. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Actors
Peter Krause - Det. Joe Miller
Julianna Margulies - Jennifer Bloom
Kevin Pollak - Karl Kreutzfeld
Elle Fanning - Anna Miller
Roger Bart - Howard "The Weasel" Montague
Dennis Christopher - Martin Ruber
Julianna Margulies - Jennifer Bloom
Kevin Pollak - Karl Kreutzfeld
Elle Fanning - Anna Miller
Roger Bart - Howard "The Weasel" Montague
Dennis Christopher - Martin Ruber
Member Movie Reviews
Roland V. (AlHazred) from PISCATAWAY, NJ wrote on 5/29/2008...
1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.
In The Lost Room, Detective Joe Miller gets caught up in the frenzy surrounding a number of Objects. The Objects are perfectly ordinary-looking items that all were in room 10 of the Sunshine Motel near the town of Gallup, New Mexico at 1:20:45 pm, May 4, 1961. At that time, something happened in that room that ripped it out of reality and imbued the Objects in it with supernatural powers. The Objects bring out the worst in people; untold numbers of people have died in the secret wars and machinations surrounding possession of the Objects. Detective Miller comes into the possession of the key, one of the most powerful Objects, which gives the user access to the actual Room 10; he is driven to learn everything he can about the Objects and what event created them when his daughter disappears inside the Room.I liked the way the miniseries slowly built up over the three days that they showed it. I felt like these were real people reacting as people would react in these unusual circumstances - confronted with proof positive of "real magic" at work, how many people would retain their old attitudes about things? In addition, Joe Miller gets to use his mind throughout the show. I like a show with a smart hero, and the smartness he displays is real intelligence, not manufactured incidents - he does things that I'm thinking to myself as I watch the show.
The miniseries ends with some questions answered, but many, many more still left in the air. I could definitely see a regular weekly series surrounding the Objects and the continuing attempts by various factions and cabals to possess them. Some of the cabals believe that God is dead, and that the Objects are pieces of his body. Others think they can communicate with God through the right combination of Objects. Still others think the Objects are of alien origin. Finally, they don't answer the best mystery of them all - how the Room and the Objects came to be. I have a hard time coming up with a really satisfying Event that explains it all, and I'm sure the writers had a similar hard time. But I'd like to know the answer anyway.
Anyway, I recommend this series if you enjoy Modern Fantasy stories, conspiracies, or shows about consequences and the use of intelligence.
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