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The film leaves out a few minor characters and character elements for example, the mental hospital staff play a more prominent role in the book.

Ma and Jack’s religious faith is a reoccurring element in the book but was cut out completely in the movie.

In the book, Ma has a brother, sister-in-law and young niece, who all play roles in Jack adapting to life outside Room.

Adaptational Timespan Change: Events that took a while in the book also happen much faster in the movie, such as Jack and Ma initiating the escape plan and their stay in the hospital.

With the shorter run-time, Ma is portrayed as a quieter version of shell-shocked in the movie.

To an extent, Ma is a bit more outgoing, talkative and political after her release in the novel - part of what drives her to a breaking point is the fact that she’s revered as a hero when - having gone online on the clinic's computers to look up "confinement" and "trafficking" - she knows how many prisoners live in solitary confinement and children work in sweatshops or live in an Orphanage of Fear.

The role in the movie was expanded and rewritten slightly when Joan Allen came on board, and she’s depicted as a bit quieter, more sensitive and intelligent. Adaptational Personality Change: Nancy, Ma’s mother and Jack’s grandma, is a bit more of a frumpy old lady in the book - a bit Innocently Insensitive and has tried a few new-age ways to cope with her grief.Had she lived, he would have treated her the same way he treated Jack. For his daughter, Old Nick did zero research into assuring she was healthy, and didn't care when she died.Jack's biological father, Old Nick, is holding him hostage and depriving him from proper socialization and development.Also not to be confused with Harold Pinter's The Room, either. In fact, you couldn't find two more diametrically opposite films, though coincidentally both had a budget of $6 million. In 2015, the book was adapted into a film, with Donoghue penning the screenplay, and Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay in the roles of Ma and Jack. She reports that she decided to write the book after learning of the horrific real-life Fritzl case. Jack is happy in Room, watching the imaginary people on television, playing with his Ma and listening to her stories. He has never been outside, seen any more of the sky than the slit of blue that comes through Skylight, or met any human being besides his Ma and Old Nick, who comes in at night to bring food and talk to Ma. Ma has lived there for seven years, ever since she was taken here by Old Nick. He has lived there all his life, ever since he was born. Jack is five years old and lives with his ma in a single, eleven by eleven foot Room.