"The Woman in the Room" is a half-hour American film from the early 1980s. It was the first effort as director and writer by 3-time Academy Award nominee Frank Darabont. Darabont's biggest successes, including the #1 in the IMDb top250, are all adaptations from Stephen King's novels, so it should not come as a surprise that this is also how he started his successful career when he made this film here in his early 20s.There is one horror dream sequence, but apart from that it is a very human film in my opinion. Plus, the sequence worked surprisingly well with the rest of the story. It is all about dying, compassion and making the right decisions. The title character is an old woman dying from cancer and we witness throughout the entire film how her son, a successful lawyer, deals with this complicated situation. The script is good, the actors play their parts well and everything else is pretty fine too. No surprise Darabont cast some of the actors for his later, more famous works too. The only minor problem I had with his film here is that it seemed a bit unrealistic how the lawyer would so openly mention his personal problems to the death row inmate. Anyway, this was certainly not enough negativity to not let me recommend this movie to you. I enjoyed the watch and I hope you will too. Thumbs up.

The Woman in the Room (1983) was a decent debut for future male weepy film maker Frank Darabont. The future king of chick-flicks-for-guys makes total use of a shoe string budget and directed a surprisingly watchable film. Unlike the other film that was included on the tape, this one follows the original story (found in the short story collection Night Shift).A man is being feeling conflicted over a decision he feels that he must do. His mother is dying of a fatal illness. Everyday he visits he and watches her waste away. The doctors can't do anything for her except kill her pain. But the mother doesn't want to live like this anymore and asks him to help her. Can the good son make his mother's final request come true? What is her final wish? To find out you'll just have to watch THE WOMAN IN THE ROOM!Like I said in the beginning. A nice adaptation that was made on a minuscule budget. Not a masterpiece but a nice short.Recommended for Stephen King film fans.

Stephen King calls this the best film based on his works. It is easy to see what he likes about it.Frank Darabont directed this short film at the age of 24. At about 30 minutes in length, it tells the story of a man who is watching his mother slowly die in great pain. He must make the decision of whether to allow her suffering to continue or to help release her from her pain forever.The story was a tough one for King to write, and was loosly based on his own mother's death. The acting by Michael Cornelison is fairly good and the performance by Dee Croxton, who relies on simple facial movement, is also done well.Don't watch the film if you are looking for King horror, for there is none (except one nightmare sequence). Darabont, in his directing debut, shows why he became such a force in the film world. His style here is very good, and forshadows his extraordinary King adaptions, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.An interesting side note, is that Croxton later appears in The Green Mile. Brian Libby, who plays a prisoner in Woman, also reappears in both Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile.If you are a fan of King's short stories or a film scholar who wants to see how a short film can be done right, check this out.

I bought this film in a 2'nd hand store about 2 years ago and i have only watched it once since then. it is a low tamed collage film that feels very hollow. it is only 30 mins long. it is alright to watch when you have nothing better to do. but i don't agree with the cover when stephen king says that this is the best movie made from my stuff... this story comes from stephen kings book night shift and it is about a man who has to make a choice with his mother who is dying slowly he can help her die or he can watch her die which is killing him???? this comes with two more stories the bogey man and a bouns story. the bogey man is stephen kings as well and is a lot better. all in all it is worth watching once if you are a stephen king fan. (5/10)