'You can love something deep inside your heart and there is nothing wrong with it': why we still love The Room, 20 years on

By Renée Middlemost, Lecturer, Communication and Media, University of Wollongong

A jaunty yet dramatic piano-driven soundtrack motif; a view of the Golden Gate Bridge; a series of location shots around San Francisco. The generic title sequence of the 2003 film The Room barely hints at what follows.

The Room is a straightforward melodrama centred around a love triangle between Johnny (Tommy Wiseau, who also directs), Lisa (Juliette Danielle) and Mark (Greg Sestero). Described as “the…

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