Decent, But Ultimately Underwhelming

In The Guest Room, Richard Chapman is just trying to be a good best man when he agrees to host his little brother Phillip’s bachelor party at his home. He sends his wife and young daughter away for the weekend, expecting the usual kind of bachelor deal: drinking, carousing, maybe strippers. What he gets are two young Eastern European women in his living room that are clearly more than “just” strippers: they’re prostitutes. What he doesn’t realize until much later is that they aren’t “just” prostitutes, but women who are being trafficked for sex. After he comes close to but ultimately stops himself from sleeping with one of them, his entire world is turned upside down when they violently kill their “bodyguards” and take off. The story splits and follows two tracks: what happens with Richard as the ramifications of that night spiral out of control in both his personal and professional lives, and the story of Alexandra, the girl Richard almost slept with, both before and after that night…

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