High-Rise (2015)
Directed by Ben Wheatley

Drama
aka: High Rise

Film Synopsis

In the 1970s, Robert Laing, a successful surgeon, takes up residence on the 25th floor of an ultra-modern tower block near to London.  He has barely settled in when he begins a relationship with his neighbour Charlotte Melville, a divorced mother with a little boy Toby.  The building is the pride and joy of its esteemed architect, Anthony Royal, who inhabits the top floor of the 40-storey edifice.  It's not long before Laing finds his place in the socially segregated structure, roughly midway between the common people who live near ground level and the wealthy elite who wallow in unbridled luxury near the top.   In the struggle to maintain his place in the strict social hierarchy Laing's mental health begins to decline, just as the building itself starts to deteriorate, both physically and morally.  With the dream tower block gradually crumbling around them, its inhabitants drift every nearer towards outright anarchy...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Ben Wheatley
  • Script: Amy Jump, J.G. Ballard (novel)
  • Photo: Laurie Rose
  • Music: Clint Mansell
  • Cast: Tom Hiddleston (Laing), Jeremy Irons (Royal), Sienna Miller (Charlotte), Luke Evans (Wilder), Elisabeth Moss (Helen), James Purefoy (Pangbourne), Keeley Hawes (Ann), Peter Ferdinando (Cosgrove), Sienna Guillory (Jane), Reece Shearsmith (Steele), Enzo Cilenti (Talbot), Augustus Prew (Munrow), Dan Renton Skinner (Simmons), Stacy Martin (Fay), Tony Way (Robert the Caretaker), Leila Mimmack (Laura), Bill Paterson (Mercer), Louis Suc (Toby), Neil Maskell (P.C. White), Alexandra Weaver (Lucy)
  • Country: UK / Belgium
  • Language: English
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 119 min
  • Aka: High Rise

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