28 Hotel Rooms

28 Hotel Rooms (2012)

While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected relationship and a respite from the obligations of daily life. Through a series of moments – some profound, some silly, some intensely intimate – we see a portrait of an evolving relationship that could become the most significant one of their lives.

Date of release
2012-01-21
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (70)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Matt Ross

Casting

Interesting facts

28 Hotel Rooms is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Matt Ross and starring Chris Messina and Marin Ireland. It is Ross' first feature film. The film centers on the affair conducted between a novelist and a corporate accountant over a period of several years. The story takes a minimalist approach, consisting only of scenes between the couple in hotel rooms.

Production

Matt Ross' original idea was to make an intimate film about a relationship that would primarily focus on characters rather than plot. He stated that "the genesis of this movie came out of conversations I had with Chris Messina".

After two weeks of rehearsal, filming began in Los Angeles and continued for a week or two. During this time Marin Ireland was flying back and forth between Los Angeles and New York, where she was filming the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce. The film was edited during the next couple of months, and it was determined that certain additional scenes were needed to help further define the relationship between the two characters.

Before and during the shooting of the film, Ross encouraged the actors to collaborate in its development, resulting in more than 49 hours of material, some of it scripted and some improvised. During postproduction, many different complete versions of film were created, with scenes in different orders, different plots, and different beginnings or endings, before one version was selected as the final cut.

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