Netflix adds 'thriller' based on book that's 'deeply satisfying to watch'

As one viewer said, the film is "incredibly real and disturbing". This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more

An 'astonishing' Oscar-winning film has landed back on Netflix . In the psychological drama Room, Brie Larson is Joy, a young woman who is kidnapped, raped and held in captivity where she gives birth. Both mother and son are locked in a squalid shed that the boy, Jack (Jacob Tremblay), has never left. On the boy's fifth birthday, she begins plotting their escape.

Room is based on a book by Irish-Canadian novelist Emma Donoghue who also wrote the film's screenplay. Despite its dark subject matter, viewers and critics have praised the hope and love embedded in its extraordinary story . The role landed then