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THE ROOMMATE

US, 2011, 98 minutes, Colour.

Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly, Cam Gigandet, Aly Michalka, Frances Fisher, Billy Zane, Nina Dobrev.

Directed by Christian E. Christensen.

The Roommate is a thriller, released in 2011, panned by critics, but very popular with audiences – and still circulating on Netflix 14 years later.

The film has a college setting, the central character, Sara, Minka Kelly, coming from interstate, meeting a group of friends at a club, Tracy, lively and outgoing, and Stephen, playing in the band. Tracy opens Sara to outgoing nightlife and enjoyment. She has a romantic relationship with Stephen.

Sara is waiting for her roommate. This is Rebecca, Leighton Meester, seemingly retiring, somewhat alienated from her parents (including Frances Fisher as her mother). She forms an attachment to Sara, becoming more and more preoccupied, being with Sara, learning more about her family.

While Rebecca does take Sara to see her parents, she is somewhat hostile to them.

What follows then is an attack on the various people in Sara’s life. There is a violent attack on Tracy in a shower. Stephen continues to protect Sara, defends her, is standard by Rebecca and taken to hospital. There is an art professor, played by Billy Zane, who is very sympathetic but then revealed to be flirtatious with a range of students. Rebecca has an interview with him, feigns a sexual attack by him which gets him dismissed. Sara also has an art friend, Irene, and goes to stay with her for safety, but Rebecca attacks and ties up Irene.

And, needless to say, there is a confrontation at the end, Sara saved, Stephen surviving, Rebecca doomed.