Movie
The Riot Club
Overview
Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
Details
- Release date
- 2014-09-19
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- BFI, HanWay Films, Blueprint Pictures, Film4 Productions, Pinewood Pictures, Universal Pictures
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Max Irons as Miles Richards
- Sam Claflin as Alistair Ryle
- Douglas Booth as Harry Villiers
- Holliday Grainger as Lauren
- Jessica Brown Findlay as Rachel
- Natalie Dormer as Charlie
- Sam Reid as Hugo Fraser-Tyrwhitt
- Tom Hollander as Jeremy Villiers
- Freddie Fox as James Leighton-Masters
- Gordon Brown as Chris
- Olly Alexander as Toby Maitland
- Ben Schnetzer as Dimitri Mitropoulos
Crew
- Lone Scherfig - Director
- Laura Wade - Writer
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