The Riot Club

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The Riot Club is a thriller from director Lone Scherfig (An Education). It is an adaptation of the stage play Posh by Laura Wade and held its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. The film stars Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Jessica Brown Findlay, Holliday Grainger, Freddie Fox, and Ben Schnetzer.

Filthy. Rich. Spoiled. Rotten. A band of overprivileged rich boys run wild in this savagely funny satire of money, sex and power. In the elite realm of Oxford University, no society is more exclusive than The Riot Club, the ultra-selective fraternity for Britain’s most privileged sons. When he’s recruited to join, down-to-earth first-year student Miles (Max Irons) is at first amused—but he’s about to get a taste of upper-crust entitlement at its ugliest when a hedonistic night of drinking and drugs spins out of control. The Hunger Games’ Sam Claflin co-stars in this deliciously dark look at boys behaving badly from the Oscar(R)-nominated director of An Education.

“I was very interested in the tribalism of an exclusive dining society,” the play’s writer Laura Wade explains, “and there was something about its modus operandi that worked dramatically (you can do whatever you like if you can afford to pay for the clean-up afterwards): it seemed a potent metaphor for how rich people can behave.”

The Riot Club is rated 14A. Read our review here.