The Lost Room (Mini-Series)
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Actor: April Grace, Dennis Christopher, Julianna Margulies, Peter Jacobson, Peter KrauseBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 270 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of The Lost Room (Mini-Series)
DVD Review: Innovative
Summary: 4 Stars
This innovative miniseries was intriguing and highly entertaining. It was clean and interesting. The acting was good and the writing was very compelling. I hope they make it into a TV series. I think it would be very popoular.DVD Review: a mysterious room!
Summary: 5 Stars
sci-fiction at its best! in this short epic with great casting and dialog except the pen-man! hahaDVD Review: Thought provoking, takes you away sci-fi story
Summary: 5 Stars
In the 1960's, a lot of what we'd think are ordinary "objects" start showing up with very strange properties. The story starts when one of these objects becomes the property of a cop who takes a key away from a kid he's been trying to keep out of trouble. The kid tells him the key can be used on any door-knob, and he's not kidding! He takes it home to find that it not only works on a door to a closet, but it doesn't lead to his utility closet. Many other "objects" start turning up and can alter the properties of other "objects."
A real mind bender of a story. A must for ANY Sci-Fi fan!
DVD Review: Great Mini Series
Summary: 5 Stars
I thoroughly enjoyed the series and was very pleased to find it in DVD form. Great Movie! Suspenseful, comedic, dramatic, all the elements needed to make this worth the viewing.DVD Review: I loved it but you decide
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this Sci Fi Channel miniseries. I'm going to write a few spoilers pertaining to the show's setup to help you decide if you want to buy this. Please don't read on if you don't want any spoilers.
First of all, it's Science Fiction but set in the real world with the flavor of a cop show. The major premise of the show is that a cop finds a key that causes any door the key is used on to open to Room #10 of the Sunshine hotel as the room appeared in 1961, outside of Gallup New Mexico. So, you walk up to the door in your house but instead of using your key, you use this special key, and viola! the door opens to this room that is lost in time. Inside the room, it looks like its 1961 in the middle of the day, on a bright sunny day. You get the ebbie jeebies when you look at the room - it was very well done by Sci Fi. The room only has one door. The story does not explore what happens if you try to break a window and step into this weird world that the key opens or anything like that. When you go to leave the room, the door opens to whatever place you're thinking of that has a room. So you can travel across the globe by going through the lost room. With me so far? One more thing, the room resets everytime anybody leaves with the key... that is to say if you walk in and leave your coat, if you come back, the coat will be gone, apparently lost, forever.
Ok, well the room apparently was originally outfitted with everything that would typically be in an occupied 1960s style hotel room like a clock, a pen, clothes, comb, etc. Over the years, apparently, the people who have used the special key to this lost room have removed many of these typical items. The items appear to have special and just plain "weird" powers in the real world and the items, known as objects, are indistructible in the real world. For example, a bus ticket has the effect of transporting anyone who comes into contact with it to Gallup New Mexico in today's world and the bus pass is impossible to tear up or destroy. The comb, appears to stop time for a few seconds while the person runs the comb through their hair. Etc, etc. If you take an object into the lost room with your lost room key, and leave it in there, when the room resets, the object reverts back to where it was in 1961. Objects can be destroyed once in the room but when the room resets, a new similar object will appear to replace it.
With me so far...pretty out there. In the real world, at the Sunshine Motel, there is no room #10 only 9 rooms in the motel.
Again, the story has a cop finding the lost room key. The cop is an average Joe who would probably think this whole lost room and key thig is interesting and the story probably wouldn't have progressed beyond that. However, accidentally, his daughter winds up in the lost room and the door closes on her and when he goes back into the lost room with the key the room has reset and his young daughter is lost.
This sends our poor cop on a quest to find out as much as he can about the lost room and the mysterious objects in an effort to save his daughter. I won't spoil it from there but suffice it to say that he winds up finding all kinds of weird things like cults surrounding the lost room and the mysterious objects.
All kinds of theories float around in the show about how the room came to be lost in time/space/another dimension etc. One of the best things to me about this show is that they don't explain everything about the room or the objects or what happened. This is mostly a cop show about a man trying to save his daughter under some decidedly weird circumstances and against bands of people who act weird because they're mostly obsessed with the objects and the lost room.
I found it a very entertaining miniseries and it would be great if they made at least another miniseries surrounding this premise/concept. If you suspend disbelief and enjoy cop shows, this is a wonderfully entertaining miniseries. I hope this helps you make a decision.
Description of The Lost Room (Mini-Series)
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.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
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