The Riot Club
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| Directed by | Lone Scherfig |
| Produced by |
Graham Broadbent Peter Czernin |
| Written by | Laura Wade |
| Based on |
Posh by Laura Wade |
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| Cinematography | Sebastian Blenkov |
| Edited by | Jake Roberts |
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Blueprint Pictures
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures International |
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Running time
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107 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.5 million |
The Riot Club is a 2014 British drama film directed by Lone Scherfig and written by Laura Wade, based on Wade's 2010 play Posh. The film stars Max Irons, Sam Claflin and Douglas Booth. It is set among the Riot Club, a fictional all-male, exclusive dining club at Oxford University. When the play Posh premiered, the Riot Club was often described as a thinly veiled version of the real-life Bullingdon Club, or High Trees Society, although according to Wade it is entirely fictitious.
Alistair (Sam Claflin) and Miles (Max Irons), both with connections, start their first year at Oxford University. Though they are very different — Miles is friendly and level-headed who does not care that his girlfriend Lauren (Holliday Grainger) comes from a lower background, whilst Alistair is an insecure, arrogant and cold-hearted snob with aspirations to follow his friend's uncle, Jeremy (Tom Hollander), a Conservative MP — the common ground is that they both become members of the Riot Club, a long established elite drinking club priding itself on hedonism and the belief that money can buy anything.
Alistair takes the club in more of a competitive fashion and ends up hating Miles. Having been barred from most establishments in Oxford, they have their annual dinner at the function room in a country pub, where their raucous behaviour annoys other patrons though they reimburse Chris, the landlord. After hiring a prostitute who refuses to perform group oral sex, Alistair takes Miles' phone and texts Lauren without Miles knowing, whom they proposition to Miles' disgust. Getting progressively more drunk and ingesting drugs, they start to wreck the room, and when Chris comes to confront them, Alistair punches him followed by the others who viciously attack him, sending him to hospital. Miles attempts to stop them, by calling for an ambulance.
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