ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Trailer
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4.0 • 440 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Rooms of Experience
By Steffany Sommers
What if the most unforgivable crime came from the purest love?
Ada Wells is eighty-nine.
Her son, Teddy, is autistic.
She has spent sixty years protecting him from a world that never learned how to love him back.
Then one night, she makes a choice that shatters everything.
Now the system wants a conviction.
The media wants a monster.
And rising prosecutor Dana Jeffries is handed the most politically explosive case of her career.
Defense attorney Alexis Martinez knows this isn’t about murder.
It’s about a mother who outlived her child.
About institutions that failed.
About love pushed past the breaking point.
Rooms of Experience is a devastating courtroom drama about motherhood, morality, and the brutal cost of survival.
This isn’t about guilt.
It’s about understanding.
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Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells
with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis
Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis
Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter
Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca
Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries
Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez
Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon
Alain Uy as Ethan
and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh
Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Shaan Sharma. A Manifest Media production.
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| 0:00.0 | Some Buddhist teachings justify taking human life on the grounds of compassion and dire circumstance. |
| 0:13.8 | One text tells us, taking life is unreprehensible when it develops from a virtuous thought. |
| 0:22.6 | Ada's only thought was that her son should die at peace, in the only place and with the only person he'd ever known, comforted and |
| 0:28.1 | secure in her love, rather than lost and confused, alone among strangers. There was no malice, |
| 0:35.4 | no deceit, no attempt to cover up what she had done because there was no crime committed. |
| 0:41.1 | On the day Ada took Teddy's life, she believed fully and completely that what she was doing was not wrong. |
| 0:47.8 | In her mind, she was taking care of her son, just as she always had. |
| 0:54.2 | John Steinbeck wrote, |
| 0:56.4 | There are those among us who live in rooms of experience that you and I can never enter. |
| 1:02.5 | Ada Wells lived with her son in such a room, |
| 1:05.3 | a room where none of us have ever been for 65 years. |
| 1:09.5 | Not because she had to, not out of obligation, but out of love. |
| 1:15.1 | And her final act for her son was out of love too. Rooms of Experience by Stephanie Summers. You know, |
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