Hotel Room was a three episode
1993The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. -Events:...
HBO television series produced by
David LynchDavid Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man , Blue Velvet , and Mulholland Drive . He also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man...
(who directed two of them). Each drama takes place in the same
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
hotel room (number 603 of the Railroad Hotel) at different times (1969, 1992, and 1936, respectively).
Barry GiffordBarry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness....
wrote, and
David LynchDavid Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man , Blue Velvet , and Mulholland Drive . He also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man...
directed, the first and third episodes;
Jay McInerneyJohn Barrett McInerney Jr. is an American writer. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City; Ransom; Story of My Life: Brightness Falls; and The Last of the Savages...
wrote, and James Signorelli directed, the second.
Hotel Room was a three episode
1993The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. -Events:...
HBO television series produced by
David LynchDavid Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man , Blue Velvet , and Mulholland Drive . He also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man...
(who directed two of them). Each drama takes place in the same
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
hotel room (number 603 of the Railroad Hotel) at different times (1969, 1992, and 1936, respectively).
Barry GiffordBarry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness....
wrote, and
David LynchDavid Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man , Blue Velvet , and Mulholland Drive . He also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man...
directed, the first and third episodes;
Jay McInerneyJohn Barrett McInerney Jr. is an American writer. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City; Ransom; Story of My Life: Brightness Falls; and The Last of the Savages...
wrote, and James Signorelli directed, the second. The series was produced by Deepak Nayar; executive producers were
Monty MontgomeryDelmonico Lamont "Monty" Montgomery is a former professional American football defensive back in the National Football League. He played six seasons for the Indianapolis Colts , the San Francisco 49ers , the Philadelphia Eagles , and the New Orleans Saints ....
and
David LynchDavid Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man , Blue Velvet , and Mulholland Drive . He also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man...
. Music was by frequent Lynch collaborator
Angelo BadalamentiAngelo Badalamenti is an American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga and Mulholland Drive.-Early life:...
.
The show's rights were once owned by Spelling Entertainment, CBS owns these rights now.
Introduction
Each episode began with the following narration: "For a millennium the space for the hotel room existed – undefined. Mankind captured it and gave it shape and passed through. And sometimes when passing through, brushing up against the secret names of truth."
Episodes
The only consistent characters in each episode are a maid (played by Camilla Overbye Roos) and a bellboy (played by Clark Heathcliffe Brolly).
Episode 1: Tricks
September, 1969.
Moe arrives at the Railroad Hotel where he and a hooker named Darlene are shown to the hotel room: 603. Before Moe can act, a man from his past named Lou arrives at the room and takes control of the situation, to the detriment of Moe.
Starring
Harry Dean StantonHarry Dean Stanton is an American actor of film and television.-Early life:Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, the son of Ersel , a hair dresser, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer and barber. His parents divorced when Stanton was in high school and later re-married...
,
Glenne HeadlyGlenne Aimee Headly is an American actress of film, stage and television.-Early life:Glenne Headly was born in New London, Connecticut. As a very young child she lived in San Francisco with her mother and then spent a couple of years under the care of her maternal grandmother in a small town in...
, and
Freddie JonesFreddie Jones is an English character actor.Jones was born in the town of Longton in the city of Stoke-on-Trent. He became an actor after ten years of working as a laboratory assistant with a firm making ceramic products, when his hobby took over...
.
Episode 2: Getting Rid of Robby
June 1992.
Sasha arrives in room 603, and receives a phone call of her friends (Tina and Diane) who are in the hall and ask to him whether they can go up. Then a great discussion begins about the future of Sasha.....Will she marry Robert? Each one emits her point of view.....then Robert comes...
Starring Deborah Unger,
Griffin Dunne-Personal life:Dunne was born in New York City, New York, the son of Ellen Beatriz Dunne and Dominick Dunne. His mother founded the victims' rights organization Justice for Homicide Victims and his father was a producer, writer, and actor...
,
Chelsea FieldChelsea Field is an American actress. She played Teela in the 1987 film adaptation of Masters of the Universe. In a break from tradition and He-Man canon, she portrayed Teela as a brunette character wearing with a full costume with pants and sleeves.- Personal life :Field has been married to actor...
, and
Mariska HargitayMariska Magdolina Hargitay is an American actress, best known for her role as Detective Olivia Benson on the television program Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Hargitay is a winner of a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award....
.
Episode 3: Blackout
April 1936.
A significant power failure occurs in New York; a man (Danny) enters his room with food and finds his wife on the settee in the darkness with a hand on her eyes. The couple begin to speak and it is revealed that the woman has a mental problem because of the death of her son two years previously. A doctor shows up to see if all is well...
Starring
Crispin GloverCrispin Hellion Glover is an American film actor and self-published author. Glover is known for portraying eccentric people on screen, such as George McFly in Back to the Future, Layne in River's Edge, the undertaker in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, the "Creepy Thin Man" in the big screen...
and
Alicia WittAlicia Roanne Witt is an American film, stage, television actress and singer.-Early life:Witt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the daughter of Diane, a junior high school reading teacher, and Robert Witt, a science teacher and photographer. She has a brother, Ian...
.
Book
The teleplays for the
Barry GiffordBarry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness....
written episodes were published as a book by
University Press of MississippiThe University Press of Mississippi, founded in 1970, is a publisher that is sponsored by the eight state universities in Mississippi:*Alcorn State University*Delta State University*Jackson State University*Mississippi State University...
in 1995 titled
Hotel Room Trilogy: Tricks - Blackout - Mrs. Kashfi ISBN 0-87805-777-3
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