The Riot Club (2014)

Two first-year students at Oxford University join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.

Director:

Lone Scherfig

Writers:

Laura Wade (play), Laura Wade

Stars:

Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Thomas Arnold	...	Escott
Harry Lloyd	...	Lord Riot
Amber Anderson	...	Lady Anne
Max Irons	...	Miles
Sam Claflin	...	Alistair Ryle
Andrew Woodall	...	Alistair's Father
Anastasia Hille	...	Alistair's Mother
Vincent Franklin	...	Porter
Holliday Grainger	...	Lauren
Sam Reid	...	Hugo
Patrick Barlow	...	Don
Jack Farthing	...	George
Mary Roscoe	...	George's Mummy
Joey Batey	...	Eager Chap
Douglas Booth	...	Harry Villiers

Storyline

SPOILER: Alistair and Miles, both with aristocratic connections, start their first year at Oxford University though they are very different, Miles is down to earth and happy to have a girlfriend, Lauren, from a lower background whilst Alistair is a snob with aspirations to follow his uncle, a Tory MP. The common bond is that 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. Having been barred from most establishments in Oxford they have their annual dinner at the function room in a country pub, where their rowdy behavior angers other patrons though they reimburse Chris, the landlord. They hire a prostitute but she refuses to perform group sex, then one of them rings Lauren, whom they importune to Max's horror. Getting progressively more drunk and ingesting drugs they start to trash the room and, when Chris comes to complain, Alistair savagely assaults him, landing him in hospital. Though ...

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Plot Keywords:

oxford university | violence | initiation rite | debauchery | prostitute | 

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Taglines:

Filthy. Rich. Spoilt. Rotten.

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, disturbing and violent behavior, sexual content, nudity and drug use

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is the second collaboration between Holiday Granger and a member of the Irons family. Before co-starring with Max Irons in The Riot Club, she used to act next to his father, Jeremy Irons, as Lucrezia in The Borgias.

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Goofs

When Charlie comes to the pub she is handed a glass of champagne. With different camera angles the champagne flute turns to a shot glass then back to a champagne flute.

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Quotes

Guy Bellingfield: Excuse me, I'm in charge here!

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Connections

Featured in Projector: The Riot Club (2014)

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Soundtracks

Jerusalem
Written by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Performed by Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band
Arranged by Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

User Reviews

pointless

A group of young men in an Oxford society that is a thinly-disguised Bullingdon recruit new members and set in train their initiations and various japes. This culminates in a welcome party that skips from debauchery into Dionysian rage. The two new recruits are an odd couple, a kind of good snob/bad snob pairing who share a tutorial and have facile arguments along Tory/Labour lines. The problem with all the chundering and punting antics of these spoiled clowns is that it is too easy a target. The Riot Club wields too blunt a scalpel to be incisive social commentary. And it just isn't funny or bizarre enough to be biting satire. The ten members all seem to flounce around in a similar fashion and become indistinguishable from each other. Thank the stars one was Greek which allowed for a degree of differentiation. Live long enough in the UK and you will come across arid, prickly Oxbridge graduates with their insular sneering and extensive on-parade vocabulary. They form a particular insidious tribe in UK society and the system of boarding schools and privilege that breeds them is ripe for excoriation. Unfortunately, this film takes aim and misses by a ridiculous mile.

Details

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Country:

UK France

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 March 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Riot Club

Filming Locations:

Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$2,188, 29 March 2015

Gross USA:

$7,734

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$3,517,925

Company Credits

Production Co:

Film4, HanWay Films, British Film Institute (BFI)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

107 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color