Room 314 is five different stories about five couples in various stages of their relationships. Longing for connection, underlying tensions, and need for understanding all swirl about as these couples struggle to say what they want and occasionally succeed. Nick and Stacey wake up and find they have to get to know each other again. An unexpected visit forces Harry to confront Gretchen. Jack and Kathy discover that their physical attraction could be something far more significant. Matt and Tracey push a game a little too far. And David and Caly struggle to redefine their relationship. Room 314 gives the audience a look at these characters that's so close as to be uncomfortable at times, but shows a universal truth: Wanting connection with someone else and knowing how to achieve it are two entirely different things.

Written and Directed by Michael Knowles. Produced by Laura Knight and Michael Knowles. Executive Producer: John Ramos.

Starring Sarah Bennett (Fast Track), Joelle Carter (High Fidelity, Inconceivable, Wonderland), Matthew Del Negro (Chelsea Walls, The West Wing, Beautiful People), Michael Knowles (Sex And The City, The Babysitters), Michael Laurence (Talk Radio), Jennifer Marlowe, Michael Mosley (Swimmers, Kidnapped), Robyn Myhr, Todd Swenson, Monique Vukovic.

Reviews

“Written and directed by Michael Knowles (who is also the cinematographer), Room 314 is an actor’s dream. Shot in self-contained episodes and entirely without music (except for the credits), it has a vérité look and a voyeuristic atmosphere that complement the intimacy of the material.”

Jeanette Catsoulis, The New York Times
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“Obviously a labor of love for all parties involved, Room 314 indicates Knowles -- who does multiple duties as helmer, editor, producer and co-lenser as well as writer and co-star -- has a fine-tuned gift for creating vivid characters with a minimum of dialogue, and a sure feel for establishing and sustaining tension, sexual or otherwise, within limited timespans.”

Joe Leydon, Variety
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“By filming in a claustrophobic hotel room and through the use of astonishingly long takes, Knowles leaves very little to the imagination: Room 314 depicts situations so achingly, relentlessly real that it’s as if you really are the proverbial fly on the wall. Yet unlike, say, Plaza Suite, there are few contrivances to be found within the characters’ interpersonal dynamics, fleshed out by actors that are almost shockingly rooted in realism.”

> Leonard Jacobs, New York Press
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“The diversity of personal demons carried into the room suggests it is but a microcosm of wider social patterns: infidelity, suicide, prostitution, alcoholism, and the pangs of intimacy all seem to leave their essences behind in the pale tan walls, not unlike the residue of cigarette smoke.”

> Rob Humanick, Slant Magazine
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