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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236211761
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Running Time: 270 minutes
Sales Rank: 3934
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 2006
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Description:
In the 1960s, an unknown event at the Sunshine Motel caused ordinary things in Room 10 to transform into items of wonder. The room and its contents gained unique and inexplicable properties, transforming them from mundane things into indestructible Objects with extraordinary powers that are sought after by anyone who knows their secrets. Police Det. Joe Miller (Peter Krause) first learns of The Room when he unwittingly comes across the most powerful and coveted Object of them all: the Key. His life immediately turns upside down as his young daughter becomes lost in the room and Joe is the target of shadowy figures who will stop at nothing to take from him his only hope of saving her - the Key.
Amazon.com:
If you're a fan of NBC's 2006 hit show Heroes, chances are you'll get a similar kick out of The Lost Room, a three-part, 4.5-hour Sci-Fi Channel miniseries originally broadcast in December 2006. It's pure hokum (especially when compared to Heroes, which rises from the same creative zeitgeist), and not nearly as clever at it initially seems to be, but there's something undeniably compelling about its premise, which turns everyday objects from the Kennedy era into powerful talismans of supernatural force. The present-day story is rooted in a dark, terrible, and cosmically reverberant incident that occurred in a remote motel room in 1961. Now it's 45 years later, and Detective Joe Miller (Six Feet Under's Peter Krause) has acquired a motel-room key that turns any door into a portal to 'the lost room,' a kind of alternate-reality no-man's-land, where his young daughter Anna (Elle Fanning, a look-alike for her older sister Dakota) soon goes missing. In his quest to retrieve her, Miller attracts the dangerous attention of various secret factions (with names like The Order, The Legion, and The Collectors) in heated competition to locate the many objects that hold strange powers and could, when gathered together, yield amazing benefits or tear reality apart.
Beginning with Krause, superb casting makes The Lost Room constantly engaging, even when its logic borders on nonsensical. Clearly intended as a potential series, it leads to a let-down ending where too many questions remain unanswered, but getting there is a blast. And while the smart, beautiful Julianna Margulies seems cast adrift as Miller's bland love interest (and a member of the object-seeking underground), the story grows increasingly intriguing with the introduction of a wealthy father (Kevin Pollak) obsessed with curing his cancerous son with the objects; an unstable nebbish (Peter Jacobsen) who's been driven nearly mad by his visits to the lost room; a devious doctor (Dennis Christopher) who falls in with a group of religious zealots convinced that the lost room leads to God; and various supporting characters (including comedian/monologist Margaret Cho) and subplots that lead you to believe this is all leading to something fantastic. That The Lost Room fails to deliver on its early promise doesn't mean it's a waste of time; it's got the same clever appeal as Heroes and Lost, and one can easily see how it might've made a more rewarding long-form series. Individual reactions will vary, but fans of supernatural sci-fi will want to check it out for themselves. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Unique and addictive
This is a gem of a story, unlike anything else. Once we started watching, we couldn't stop. The characters are engaging and 3-dimensional, the premise and the adventure are completely gripping, and the whole thing is put together well. Being from Albuquerque, I also liked the New Mexico locations. I only wish we could see more adventures from this story, given the ambiguous ending.
Rating: - Excellent condition - timely arrival
Product came factory shrink wrapped and arrived in a time fashion. I would definitely purchase from this seller again.
Rating:  - unique and fun
I caught part of the mini seriess on SciFi a while back. Looking to buy LOST and this pops up. Glad I got it. Very inventive story line. The DVD menus aren't done very well, but buy it for the content. At this price its worth every cent. You wont be dissappointed.
Rating: - One Theory
This is an excellent SciFi miniseries. Well worth owning.
Allow me to put forth a theory surrounding The Event in the story, which is reported to have occured on May 4, 1961 at 1:20pm. This falls about the time it has been speculated that the US government was reverse-engineering the craft recovered from the Roswell Incident. Since it has also been speculated that its drive system involved some form of space-time warp, could the tampering with this advance technology have triggered The Event?
Rating: - Great miniseries, weak ending
I'm not going to elaborate on why this is a great miniseries. Many other reviewers have done that exceedingly well. But I am going to complain about the ending.
Some reviewers have implied or stated that the weakness of the ending comes from the unresolved plot lines which may serve as the basis for a series. I agree that those unresolved plot lines can be considered by many to be a weakness. But those unresolved plot lines are not the basis of my complaint about the ending - I'm fine with any number of unresolved plot lines. The real problem with the last episode is that is is simply very weak-it fails to show the creativity, ingenuity, or intelligence of the rest of the series. I'm not going to go into any detail because I don't want to give anything away, but that last episode fails to hold up the high standards of the rest of the mini series. So as you are watching this amazing series and you are heading for the end, expecting that the ending will be on the same level as everything else, be ready for a disappointment because it isn't. The ending is certainly not horrible, nothing like the ending in the Ninth Gate-possibly the worst ending of any movie ever, but it just isn't very smart or even very interesting.
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