Spare Room

Idk why this movie was nowhere it cost shit and it was great. They killed the Native American who killed their White friend in an American war and everyone was pretty. Great movie! Lmao.

The movie isn't too long so it does feel as if things happen in such a short span but it's still got pretty good scene frames. Bittersweet and funny. Loved the music.

Story is good if you are into drama genre. Movie moves at a slow pace, but stays interesting. Lead female actor steals the show; and everyone else does reasonably well too.

A Spare Room takes place in a small town and centers around 2 main characters, and their struggles after the modern war in the Middle East. David (played by Martin Sensmeier) is a quiet, hard-to-crack, ex-military man that has a secret. You'll see hints with flashbacks & eventually learn the whole story on how he acts the way he does. Lillian (played brilliantly by Skyler Samuels) is a 20-something military wife, that lost her husband in the war. Lillian is struggling with money, as well as being the guardian of her younger brother, named Arrow, whom has down syndrome. Lillian realizes her party days are gone & she must stay focused & responsible, much to the dismay of her boyfriend Greg. Arrow is played by newcomer Cole Sibus, who channels Leo DiCaprio in Whats Eating Gilbert Grape. Arrow deals with his adolescence, going to school & befriending a beautiful girl (played by Stefanie Scott). Arrow works his charm and eases the tension of the movie. He brings out the best in David, Lillian & Greg (played by Thomas Cocquerel). All their lives will intertwine & once you learn the whole story, you may be surprised by how it ends. All-in-all, I'd say open your heart & give A Spare Room a try.

A sweet emotional movie about a Veteran who struggles post war with his time serving this country and the young widow of another veteran who died in the same war. Good acting and a touching story.

While the story is slightly predictable, there is depth to the emotions of the acting in the film that rings true for anyone who has experienced trauma or grief. Definitely worth the watch if you like dramas

This movie had potential. The acting isn't bad and the idea is solid. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past the quintessential premise that the lead's husband was somehow posthumously the subject of military punishment after being killed in combat. WTH??? For what? Getting killed without permission? Like a company, battalion or brigade commander is going to push through some kind of negative separation status for someone in their command who is already dead? The story that David told must have included Matt murdering women and children and burning villages on his way to getting shot to justify this kind of administrative response. And the kicker is that, while someone with an "other than honorable" or worse discharge would be ineligible for certain veteran's benefits, it wouldn't affect their SGLI (life insurance) since the only qualification for that is that you died. So Lillian should still have received this payout. Then David is somehow brought back into service and incarcerated for "lying" about the fact that he ignored orders to withdraw and chased an enemy combatant into a tunnel which led to his being wounded and friend killed. Maybe he was so full of guilt that he altered his story to include actually shooting Matt himself. This whole plot point is just such BS and because they made it the basis of the whole story . . . It ruined the movie for me. It would be like throwing in an intervention by aliens, Santa or some kind of magical coincidence.

So we have a waitress Lilian who is unhappy about the death of her husband because we not honorably discharged from the military thereby not getting any benefits from his death. However, she is superfine to be in a relationship with a loser. Enters David - ex military veteran and pure gold-class acting in being expressionless. He randomly drives to a bar, gets a job and meets Lilian in a supermarket and then rent a spare room in her house only to later confess that he was responsible for the death of her husband and his actions got him dishonorably discharged. At this point, my GERD resurfaced after 7 years and I decided to write this review fearing for my life. Acting was horrendous all round, except for Cole as the brother of the waitress. veteran actors like Virginia Madsen & Chris Mulkey must have been in a filed-for-bankruptcy-situation to act in this meandering mess. Absolute malarkey as Biden would say.