Room Full of Spoons

Room Full of Spoons is a 2016 Canadian documentary film directed by Rick Harper about the 2003 cult film The Room.

Room Full of Spoons
Film poster
Directed by	Rick Harper[1]
Written by	Rick Harper
Starring	Juliette Danielle Philip Haldiman Scott Holmes Dan Janjigian Carolyn Minnott Robyn Paris Michael Rousselet Doug Walker Sandy Schklair Kyle Vogt
Narrated by	Rick Harper
Cinematography	Martin Racicot
Edited by	Fernando Forero
Music by	Mladen Milicevic
Production companies	RockHaven Pictures Parktown Studios
Distributed by	RockHaven Pictures
Release date	April 2016 (2016-04)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Synopsis

Rick Harper, "Canadian documentary maker and The Room superfan",^[2] a longtime associate of Tommy Wiseau, director of the infamous 2003 film The Room, explores the story behind the film's troubled production and researches Wiseau's mysterious background, concluding that he is Polish and originally from the city of Poznań.^[3]

Cast

• Rick Harper
• Juliette Danielle
• Philip Haldiman
• Carolyn Minnott
• Robyn Paris
• Scott Holmes
• Dan Janjigian
• Kyle Vogt
• Sandy Schklair
• Michael Rousselet
• Doug Walker
• Alan Bagh

Production

Ottawa filmmaker Rick Harper, with Fernando Forero, Martin Racicot and Richard Towns, formed Rockhaven Pictures.^[when?][4]

Release

On February 10, 2016, Rick Harper introduced^[5] Room Full of Spoons at University of Sheffield Students' Union, with questions and answers with Ryan Finnigan, author of The Room: The Definitive Guide.^[6]

Legal issues

After a brief theatrical run in April 2016, the documentary was quickly pulled when independent theaters reported receiving legal notices of copyright infringement from Tommy Wiseau, the director, writer, producer, and star of The Room.^[7] Another attempt to release the film in 2017 to capitalize on the film The Disaster Artist was stymied by Wiseau, who filed an injunction in Ontario courts, preventing a DVD release of the film and setting up a lengthy legal battle. After a final trial in January 2020, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice judge Paul Schabas ruled in favour of the makers of Room Full of Spoons, therefore allowing the film to be marketed and released. He ordered Wiseau to pay the filmmakers US$550,000^[8] in compensatory damages, CA$200,000 in punitive damages, and defendants' court costs.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

Wiseau Studio appealed the Superior Court of Ontario's April 2020 Judgement, and on July 23, 2021, Wiseau's appeal was dismissed by the Court of Appeal for Ontario.^[14]

On January 15, 2021, in Wiseau Studio, LLC v. Harper, 2021 ONCA 31, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, for the first time, an Ontario court ordered security for a trial judgment pending appeal.^[15]

See also

• Best Worst Movie