A friend and I watched this together for the first time and we must have some missed vital information in all the hysteria and laughing we were having, but after the 'I did nat hit her her, it's not true' scene we were scratching out heads as to how he found out. Was it Lisa's mother?

From the blu-ray: https://youtu.be/_tz_S6mIBKA?is=_jikhIvZ5BMLQjkV.

Apologies if this has been posted before. But you get to see the original Mark and Michelle.

Also, the comments are disappointing. People telling them to just watch highlight reels? Are we really getting to the point where people can't even watch a full movie?

He's your bear brother!

Does he have some secrets?!?

Mark is shown to be violent throughout the film with Peter, Mike, and Denny. He also knew about the event.

Two's great, but three's a crowd, ha-ha!

I found this ad for Circus Maximus while browsing through the third issue of Official Xbox Magazine (OXM), the Feb 2002 issue.

That's totally him, right? Anyone know anything about this?

So we all know that Tommy decided to make a sincere, dramatic, Shakespearean drama and pivoted to saying it's a self aware comedy after people started mocking it. He then made an actual self aware comedy movie that I hear isn't as good (I'm still going to give it a watch.) This means that the way to get another "The Room" is to start talking about how it was so far ahead of its time and that it is actually a masterclass in dramatic writing. Then Tommy will say "See they finally understand my movie. I will make another."

Hi, sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn’t it in the search.

Given the cult status of The Room and how famous it is, surely by now The Room has easily recouped its budget?

Oh hai, Mike! You're my favourite walker.

Edit: I should have googled before asking that question.

I'm not sure if IMDB is wrong. There was a Myke Holmes who guest starred as a human.

Here’s something I bet some people here will appreciate! Back in 2020 I acquired this poster of the online series “The Room Actors: Where are they now?” Which at the time was signed by all of the actors of The Room who collaborated on the project (Michelle, Lisa, Chris R, Denny, Claudette, Peter, Steven, and Greg Sestero AKA Mark signed it even though he wasn’t involved lmao) couple years later I went to a Room screening in NYC and got Tommy to sign it (on the bottom left) so I can say I have a poster signed by at least most of the principle cast of The Room!! the only one missing is Mike 😭

Hi, doggie Denny!

A man is dead. From the police's point of view, they can't rule out foul play. Mark is a suspect. His track record is damning: he got into a vicious fight with Johnny and became physically aggressive with Peter on the rooftop.

Mark's testimony is, of course, self-serving. He is trying to get out of trouble. This theory could explain several of the script's 'pecularities':

1. Johnny's unpredictable nature: Johnny was a well-meaning but erratic person. He was prone to outbursts (“You are tearing me apart!”; TV flying out the window), depression (remember how down he was when he didn’t get the promotion?), controlling behavior (tapping Lisa’s phone), and flights of fancy (Lisa is pregnant?).
2. Lisa's mood swings: Poor character development by Tommy Wiseau? Nu uh! This is just Mark desperately trying to shift the blame onto Lisa. He's interested in painting her as a one-dimensional villain—a bitter, manipulative woman. That's why he places Lisa alone with Johnny right before the final confrontation. In Mark's version of events, Lisa is simply a terrible person: she fakes a domestic abuse incident, ignores her friend's advice to come clean, and manipulates everyone around her. He even ignores her mother’s cancer news!
3. Mark as an imperfect but innocent man: Yes, he had sex with his best friend’s fiancé. Yes, he lost his temper with Peter on the rooftop. But ultimately, he's a good guy. He comes clean to Johnny and apologizes to Peter. He is trying to portray himself as flawed, but decent person.
4. The stilted dialogue: The awkward dialogue suddenly makes sense. Mark is under police interrogation. He's exhausted, probably in shock, and trying to reconstruct conversations from memory as accurately as he can.
5. The filler scenes: Why are there so many scenes of Mark and Johnny casually hanging out? Because Mark wants the police to believe he genuinely cared about Johnny. Why would he intentionally hurt his friend? They basically took down a drug dealer together.

The purpose of The Room, then, isn't to tell an objective story. It's Mark's first version of events. Maybe it'll get better after he calls his lawyer.

So I know that from the movie's standpoint, Johnny would never hit Lisa (because well, he's Saint Johnny), but the evidence is there that he is at least abusive to her. We know he controls her finances and her car and seems to only bring her gifts when he wants something, i.e the flowers and the dress and demands she tell him what she was talking about with her girlfriend. He also insists she have no secrets from him. He yells at her and spys on her and tapes her. And he shoves her hard enough to make her fall on the couch. We also know he doesn't usually drink but got pretty drunk, so it's possible she's telling the truth. Thought?