Brie Larson’s Oscar-winning performance is a must-watch on Netflix in August 2024
The 2015 film adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel, also titled “Room,” was met with widespread praise from critics. Starring Brie Larson as Joy, a woman who has been kidnapped and held captive for seven years in a backyard shed, the movie is deeply moving. Her five-year-old son Jack, whose father is Joy’s abductor and assailant, has never ventured beyond this small shed they call “Room.” The only world he knows is this confined space.