"The Woman in the Room" is a half-hour American film from the early 1980s. It was the first effort as director and writer by 3-time Academy Award nominee Frank Darabont. Darabont's biggest successes, including the #1 in the IMDb top250, are all adaptations from Stephen King's novels, so it should not come as a surprise that this is also how he started his successful career when he made this film here in his early 20s.
There is one horror dream sequence, but apart from that it is a very human film in my opinion. Plus, the sequence worked surprisingly well with the rest of the story. It is all about dying, compassion and making the right decisions. The title character is an old woman dying from cancer and we witness throughout the entire film how her son, a successful lawyer, deals with this complicated situation. The script is good, the actors play their parts well and everything else is pretty fine too. No surprise Darabont cast some of the actors for his later, more famous works too. The only minor problem I had with his film here is that it seemed a bit unrealistic how the lawyer would so openly mention his personal problems to the death row inmate. Anyway, this was certainly not enough negativity to not let me recommend this movie to you. I enjoyed the watch and I hope you will too. Thumbs up.
There is one horror dream sequence, but apart from that it is a very human film in my opinion. Plus, the sequence worked surprisingly well with the rest of the story. It is all about dying, compassion and making the right decisions. The title character is an old woman dying from cancer and we witness throughout the entire film how her son, a successful lawyer, deals with this complicated situation. The script is good, the actors play their parts well and everything else is pretty fine too. No surprise Darabont cast some of the actors for his later, more famous works too. The only minor problem I had with his film here is that it seemed a bit unrealistic how the lawyer would so openly mention his personal problems to the death row inmate. Anyway, this was certainly not enough negativity to not let me recommend this movie to you. I enjoyed the watch and I hope you will too. Thumbs up.