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Title: The Riot Club (2014)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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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 | |
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Patrick Barlow | ... | Don |
| Jack Farthing | ... | George | |
| Mary Roscoe | ... | George's Mummy | |
| Joey Batey | ... | Eager Chap | |
| Douglas Booth | ... | Harry Villiers | |
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 ... Written by don @ minifie-1, geo
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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.