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The movie, adapted from a Man Booker Prize-nominated novel by
Emma Donoghue, took the People's Choice Award at this year's
festival, whose past winners, including "The King's Speech" and
"12 Years a Slave" have gone on to enjoy Oscar success.
It tells the story of Jack (Jacob Tremblay) who has only ever
known the small space he and his mother (Brie Larson) have been
held in. As the story progresses with their escape, the effect
of the room over their lives becomes more apparent.
"It has a universality to it ... this family is really trying to
find its way back together and there's just the wonder of the
little boy being in the world for the first time," co-star Joan
Allen said at the Los Angeles premiere on Tuesday.
"It's a very hopeful film because characters are trying to come
to terms with something that is extremely difficult and painful
and they're really prevailing."
The book and movie have echoes of the real-life case of
Elisabeth Fritzl, who was held captive in a concealed part of
her father's home in Austria for years.
"I had to stay out of the sun to get rather pale," Larson said
of preparing for the role.
"I went on a restrictive diet ... and worked with a trauma
specialist to talk about how the brain would organize itself
around the sexual abuse and being trapped in a room that long
but it didn't stick to me."
"Room" goes on release in New York and Los Angeles on Oct. 16.
It comes to European cinemas in early 2016.
(Reporting By Reuters Television in Los Angeles; Editing by
Keith Weir)
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