Great Room

Rating: 9/10 (20 March 2016)

Brie Larson gives an outstanding performance in this tale of a girl abducted, abused, impregnated, and what she had to overcome to keep her son alive. A young woman is abducted and then forced to live in a shed. The shed is soundproof and locked. Her assailant then gets her pregnant and she has the baby. The story begins after the child is now about 5 years old. The mother and son live in this one room shed. The kidnapper only shows up when he wants his way with the mother or brings food and supplies. They are given just the bare minimum to survive. When the abductor starts to see the child as a possible new direction for the abuse, she knows it is time to get the child out before it is too late. The script is well written. I believed every minute of what was going on and how it played out. I hope not to give too much away, but getting out of the "Room" is only half the movie. The other half is filled with deep emotional variances that take you across a broad spectrum of response to the situation. As a final note, a special nod of approval for the lady officer in the movievery smart!