WHO’S IN IT?
Max Irons (The Host), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Douglas Booth (Noah), Holliday Grainger (Great Expectations), Freddie Fox (The Three Musketeers), Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Sam Reid (Belle), Ben Schnetzer (The Book Thief), Tom Hollander (In The Loop), Anastasia Hille (The Awakening), Olly Alexander (Bright Star)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Lone Scherfig (An Education), director; Laura Wade (film debut), writer; Graham Broadbent (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Peter Czernin (Now Is Good), producers; Kasper Winding (No Time For Love), composer; Sebastian Blenkov (Adam’s Apples), cinematographer; Jake Roberts (Perfect Sense), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Amongst the privileged elite at Oxford University, first-year students Miles (Irons) and Alistair (Claflin) become determined to join the infamous Riot Club, an exclusive clique wherein reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Critics of what some see as the elitist and privileged members of the current UK government will find plenty to enjoy about The Riot Club, based on Laura Wade’s play Posh which itself is based on the famed Bullingdon Club which current Prime Minister David Cameron was a high-profile member of.