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Lost Room (Mini-series Widescreen)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0012236211761
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Item Dimensions: 30
Label: Lions Gate
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
MPN: 21176
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Running Time: 284 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 2006
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Editorial Review:
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.System Requirements:Runtime: 300 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: 012236211761 Manufacturer No: 21176
If you're a fan of NBC's 2006 hit show Heroes, chances are you'll get a similar kick out of The Lost Room, a three-part, 4.5-hour Sci-Fi Channel miniseries originally broadcast in December 2006. It's pure hokum (especially when compared to Heroes, which rises from the same creative zeitgeist), and not nearly as clever at it initially seems to be, but there's something undeniably compelling about its premise, which turns everyday objects from the Kennedy era into powerful talismans of supernatural force. The present-day story is rooted in a dark, terrible, and cosmically reverberant incident that occurred in a remote motel room in 1961. Now it's 45 years later, and Detective Joe Miller (Six Feet Under's Peter Krause) has acquired a motel-room key that turns any door into a portal to "the lost room," a kind of alternate-reality no-man's-land, where his young daughter Anna (Elle Fanning, a look-alike for her older sister Dakota) soon goes missing. In his quest to retrieve her, Miller attracts the dangerous attention of various secret factions (with names like The Order, The Legion, and The Collectors) in heated competition to locate the many objects that hold strange powers and could, when gathered together, yield amazing benefits or tear reality apart.
Beginning with Krause, superb casting makes The Lost Room constantly engaging, even when its logic borders on nonsensical. Clearly intended as a potential series, it leads to a let-down ending where too many questions remain unanswered, but getting there is a blast. And while the smart, beautiful Julianna Margulies seems cast adrift as Miller's bland love interest (and a member of the object-seeking underground), the story grows increasingly intriguing with the introduction of a wealthy father (Kevin Pollak) obsessed with curing his cancerous son with the objects; an unstable nebbish (Peter Jacobsen) who's been driven nearly mad by his visits to the lost room; a devious doctor (Dennis Christopher) who falls in with a group of religious zealots convinced that the lost room leads to God; and various supporting characters (including comedian/monologist Margaret Cho) and subplots that lead you to believe this is all leading to something fantastic. That The Lost Room fails to deliver on its early promise doesn't mean it's a waste of time; it's got the same clever appeal as Heroes and Lost, and one can easily see how it might've made a more rewarding long-form series. Individual reactions will vary, but fans of supernatural sci-fi will want to check it out for themselves. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Mini-Series
You can't go wrong for $10. This was a great addictive to watch mini-series.
Husband's favorite: the key
Mine, the same, but I could think of a few people I would use the bus ticket on!
Would recommend to anyone who loves sci-fi.
Rating: - Lost room, I wish there was one.
Love this series, can watch it over and over again. Even when I know the end or the middle. There are some movies like that. You know!!
Rating:  - BUT WHERE WAS THE MOTHER????????
I just watched this and thought it was pretty decent. But there was a one major issue that I couldn't stop thinking bout. It seemed like a serious mistake in the writing. WHERE WAS THE LITTLE GIRL'S MOTHER? I mean they are fighting for custody and the little girl is MISSING and the father is the suspect; why didn't the mother show up?! Why did they even include that plot line? Why not just have the mother be a dead beat mom or dead? Or why not write her into the plot? This made the rest of the show ... Read More
Rating: - My only regret...
I am not a great sci-fi fan, but this was one of the best shows of any genre that I have ever seen on television. The cast if amazing, the storyline is intelligent and easy to follow. I found the concept fascinating.
The production quality is excellent with the "ROOM" definately the star of the show. The ending leaves open a possibility for a sequel or maybe even a series. My only regret is that there doesn't seem to be one on the horizon.
When visiting at my sister's house ... Read More
Rating: - scifi opus
This is some of the best sci-fi I have ever seen in my life. Its hours of entertainment.
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