Old nick far from saint nick for the first two half of room the only characters we meet are jack ma and old nick.
Room old nick.
He is a criminal who kidnapped and raped joy ma newsome in captivity and is the biological father of her son jack.
Jack is unaware that old nick kidnapped ma when she was 19 years old and has kept her imprisoned for the past seven years.
Falling for the ruse old nick places jack in the back of his pickup truck and drives through a residential neighborhood.
Brie larson plays ma a young woman who has been imprisoned in a room for seven years along with her son jack who is also the son of her kidnapper and rapist old nick.
Old nick is in popular culture and common usage a nickname for both santa claus and satan and in room old nick earns this strange sobriquet.
Old nick is the main antagonist of the 2015 independent drama film room which was based on emma donoghue s novel of the same name.
The only other person jack has ever seen is old nick who visits room at night while jack sleeps hidden in a wardrobe.
Joy wraps jack in a carpet and has him play dead in the hope that old nick will remove him from room.