Adapted from the award-winning 2013 memoir The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Film Ever Made, Franco's 14th film as director casts brother Dave Franco (excellent) as Greg Sestero, the line producer and star of The Room. It's a tribute to James Franco's skills as an actor and director that his depiction of Wiseau is simultaneously hilarious and endearing. He ploughed at least $6 million of his own money into the production, promotion, and release of The Room. Despite his decidedly Polish-sounding intonation, Wiseau insists he hails from France or Louisiana. The heavily-accented auteur remains one of the movieverse's great mysteries. Released in 2003 to zero acclaim, The Room has subsequently garnered a reputation as the Citizen Kane of bad movies, a cult sensation among those who cheer on its many unrelated subplots and tangents, it's strange outbreaks of football, and, most of all, its writer-director and star, Tommy Wiseau.
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