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The Riot Club

  • 2014
  • R
  • 1h 47m
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6.0/10
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Max Irons, Douglas Booth, and Sam Claflin in 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.
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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.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.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
  • Writer
    • Laura Wade
  • Stars
    • Sam Claflin
    • Max Irons
    • Douglas Booth
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.0/10
    24K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Lone Scherfig
    • Writer
      • Laura Wade
    • Stars
      • Sam Claflin
      • Max Irons
      • Douglas Booth
    • 77User reviews
    • 102Critic reviews
    • 54Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

    Videos4

    International Trailer
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    The Riot Club: Initiation
    Clip 1:23
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    The Riot Club: Are You Posh?
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    The Riot Club: After Dinner
    Clip 1:46
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    Matthew Beard, Douglas Booth, and Sam Claflin in The Riot Club (2014)
    Matthew Beard, Olly Alexander, Ben Schnetzer, Douglas Booth, and Sam Claflin in The Riot Club (2014)
    Douglas Booth and Jack Farthing in The Riot Club (2014)
    Tom Mison, Olly Alexander, Freddie Fox, and Sam Claflin in The Riot Club (2014)
    Holliday Grainger, Max Irons, and Sam Claflin in The Riot Club (2014)
    Matthew Beard, Max Irons, Olly Alexander, Sam Reid, Ben Schnetzer, Douglas Booth, Freddie Fox, Sam Claflin, Josh O'Connor, and Jack Farthing in The Riot Club (2014)
    Holliday Grainger and Max Irons in The Riot Club (2014)
    Holliday Grainger, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, and Sam Claflin at an event for The Riot Club (2014)
    Max Irons, Ben Schnetzer, Douglas Booth, Freddie Fox, and Sam Claflin in The Riot Club (2014)
    Max Irons, Ben Schnetzer, Douglas Booth, Freddie Fox, and Sam Claflin in The Riot Club (2014)
    Matthew Beard and Jack Farthing in The Riot Club (2014)
    Max Irons in The Riot Club (2014)

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    Sam Claflin
    Sam Claflin
    • Alistair Ryle
    Max Irons
    Max Irons
    • Miles
    Douglas Booth
    Douglas Booth
    • Harry Villiers
    Jessica Brown Findlay
    Jessica Brown Findlay
    • Rachel
    Thomas Arnold
    Thomas Arnold
    • Escott
    Harry Lloyd
    Harry Lloyd
    • Lord Riot
    Amber Anderson
    Amber Anderson
    • Lady Anne
    Andrew Woodall
    Andrew Woodall
    • Alistair's Father
    Anastasia Hille
    Anastasia Hille
    • Alistair's Mother
    Vincent Franklin
    Vincent Franklin
    • Porter
    Holliday Grainger
    Holliday Grainger
    • Lauren
    Sam Reid
    Sam Reid
    • Hugo
    Patrick Barlow
    • Don
    Jack Farthing
    Jack Farthing
    • George
    Mary Roscoe
    Mary Roscoe
    • George's Mummy
    Joey Batey
    Joey Batey
    • Eager Chap
    Freddie Fox
    Freddie Fox
    • James
    Miles Jupp
    Miles Jupp
    • Male Banker
    • Director
      • Lone Scherfig
    • Writer
      • Laura Wade
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The film was originally a successful play 'Posh' that premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2010, before transferring to the London West End.
    • 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.
    • Quotes

      [as Alistair is using a cash machine, two muggers walk up close behind him]

      Mugger: [pulling out a knife] Don't scream. Don't look at me. Just put in the PIN number, take out 200.

      Young Hooded Man: Come on, put in the fucking PIN number!

      Alistair Ryle: [as he waits for machine to give him the money] It's uh, it's actually just "PIN".

      Mugger: What?

      Alistair Ryle: The N stands for number, it's Personal Identification Number. So, if you say "PIN Number" you're saying "number" twice. You're saying "Personal Identification Number Number". It's just... it's just wrong.

      [the second mugger shoves him and he bangs his head against the wall and falls to the ground]

      Mugger: You think you're fucking clever?

      Alistair Ryle: Jesus, please!

      Mugger: Shut it, you posh twat. Pompous little prick.

      [he spits on him and walks away]

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    • Soundtracks
      Scarborough Fair
      Traditional

      Performed by Hannah Northedge Choir

      Arranged by Hannah Northedge

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    Featured review
    A genuinely uncomfortable, shocking film about yobbos in waistcoats that met and surpassed my expectations
    After an amusing introductory scene that informs you of the club's centuries' old origin, the film turns to contemporary Oxford and presents us with the latest generation of students and Riot Club members. It follows first-year students Miles Richards (Max Irons) and Alistair Ryle (Sam Claflin), both are of 'good stock' but the former is normal and down-to-earth and the latter is a malicious, fascistic sociopath.

    During the fresher's activities, Miles quickly befriends the middle- class Lauren (Holliday Grainger), a friendly girl from Northern England; the romantic pair have a sweet naturalism as they playfully talk about and erode their differing heritages. The scowling, aloof Alistair however proves to be not much of a conversationalist.

    Both are soon inaugurated into the Riot Club, whose other members include Harry Villiers (Douglas Booth), the pretty boy who struck me as the de-facto leader of the club; Hugo Fraser-Tyrwhitt (Sam Reid), a closet homosexual with an attraction to Miles; Dimitri Mitropolous (Ben Schnetzer), a horribly rich Greek student, and James Leighton- Masters (Freddie Fox), the smug little squirt who's somehow the president of the club. Some have said that it is littered with caricatures, however the film isn't about ordinary Oxford students or ordinary privilege, it is about an elite circle of extreme wealth and aristocracy.

    After Miles and Alistair make up the Riot Club's ten members, the group soon have their risibly pompous suits tailored and set off for a night's debauchery to The Old Bull, one of the few establishments they haven't been banned from. By the time this happens, I thought I had the measure of the pretentious characters and the film's narrative and tone, however as the 'dinner' progresses, both the characters and the course of events become veritably loathsome.

    As most will know, The Riot Club is inspired by the Bullingdon Club, an Oxford University dining society infamous for its destructive hedonism that boasts alumni such as David Cameron, Boris Johnson and George Osborne. The film's main target of attack isn't the purported anti-social behaviour of such people, the obnoxious decadence we witness is not endemic to the highly disagreeable 'Riot Club', what it attacks is rather the characters' raging, blue-blooded superiority complexes that causes it. Some may disagree with its politics, they may consider it a gross exaggeration; it is indeed vehement in its depiction of class wars, however I think it is undeniably a very well executed piece of filmmaking.

    The film is adapted from the stage play Posh by Laura Wade, and the middle section of the narrative, which is one long scene, certainly feels like the work of a playwright. Like Tracy Letts' Killer Joe (2011) and Bug (2006), it is another example of how punchy stage material often makes an excellent transfer to the cinema.

    Much like Letts' work, The Riot Club contains a maelstrom within a cramped four walls; the scene goes from embarrassing to plain excruciating as the decuplet, fuelled by alcohol, drugs and each other's presence, become increasingly hateful and immoral, the vile crescendo eventually reaching a climax that's genuinely shocking. It is all witnessed by the unassuming pub landlord. He is initially honoured to host the boys, the sight of him sycophantically at the beck and call of people half his age who look at him the way they would dog mess on their shoe is pathetic in the true meaning of the word.

    The worst offender is Alistair, Sam Claflin is excellent when delivering his well-written diatribes with drunken, acerbic hatred. Alistair's genocidal contempt for the working classes and those bereft of prestige bore similarities to Adolf Hitler's loathing of Jews; he gets so angry that he's reduced to saying 'I'm sick to f*cking death of poor people!' Alistair is the most odious example of unearned privilege and arrogant sense of entitlement, he rants about the successes and innovations of the ruling classes and the proletariat's supposed jealousy as if he's had a part in it, after all, what exactly has he achieved apart from winning the genetic lottery? Claflin proves himself as an accomplished villain actor, he gives his character a sociopathic quality; when there aren't flashes of his vulgar jealousy, resentment and massive hubris, Alistair has an unnerving emotional vacuity.

    The Riot Club is not simply 107 minutes of pretty boys holding champagne flutes, it is a sharply made thriller that is perhaps politically divisive but rivetingly executed.
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    • Release date
      • March 27, 2015 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • France
    • Official site
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Hội Trác Táng
    • Filming locations
      • Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK(Oxford University)
    • Production companies
      • Film4
      • HanWay Films
      • British Film Institute (BFI)
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $7,734
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,188
      • Mar 29, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,517,925
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 47 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital

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