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...
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
The history of French cinema
From its birth in 1895, cinema has been an essential part of French culture. Now it is one of the most dynamic, versatile and important of the arts in France.
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.