Six years after “The Room” debuted and then very quickly disappeared from theaters, the low-budget over-the-top drama is a cult hit on the midnight movie circuit.
The creation of eccentric writer-director-star Tommy Wiseau plays regularly in more than 60 cities around the country, as well as in London, Australia, and the Netherlands.
And as of 11:55 p.m. Saturday, it will make its Orange County debut with a screening at the Regency South Coast Village in Santa Ana.
Adopted by lovers of unintentional comedy, “The Room” is more or less a love triangle in which Wiseau’s girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend, played by Greg Sestero.
We had run into the pair at Comic-Con in San Diego this summer, and Sestero, who had promised to keep in touch in case the film ever made it to Orange County, happily rang us up this week to talk about its ongoing cult success.
“It played in theaters here in Los Angeles (in 2003) and it was kind of an average response,” Sestero says of how this all got started. “And then towards the end of the run, it was seen by a bunch of USC film students, and Loyola Marymount students, and they just loved it so much that Laemmle theaters started showing it once a month at the Sunset 5.”
Some recommended viewing from tonight’s prime-time schedule:
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Some interesting offering from tonight’s prime-time schedule:
Interesting bits from tonight’s prime-time schedule:
