Thousands of fans wait in line for hours to attend screenings complete with costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons. Now in its tenth anniversary year, The Room is an international phenomenon to rival The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Described by one reviewer as “like getting stabbed in the head,” the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks.
In 2003, an independent film called The Room-written, produced, directed, and starring a very rich social misfit of indeterminate age and origin named Tommy Wiseau-made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Where Did I Get This Book: I own it on audiobook!īook Description: From the actor who lived through the most improbable Hollywood success story, with an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer, comes the inspiring, fascinating and laugh-out-loud story of a mysteriously wealthy outsider who sundered every road block in the Hollywood system to achieve success on his own terms-the making of The Room, “the Citizen Kane of bad movies” (Entertainment Weekly).
Publishing Info: Simon & Schuster, October 2013 Book: “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside “The Room”, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made” by Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
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