High-Rise trailer: Tom Hiddleston loses his mind living in a classist tower block
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Your support makes all the difference.The biggest and perhaps most ambitious film from British director Ben Wheatley yet, High-Rise finally hits UK cinemas on 18 March.
It features big names, a modest budget and has a slightly more accessible tone, but still feels uniquely Wheatley, an adaptation of one of J.G. Ballard’s best-loved novels.
Tom Hiddleston stars, supported by Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss, a doctor who becomes increasingly unhinged as the realities of living in a high-rise tower block where the richer you are the higher you live set in.
Here’s the official synopsis:
‘1975. Two miles west of London, Dr. Robert Laing moves into his new apartment seeking soulless anonymity, only to find that the building’s residents have no intention of leaving him alone. Resigned to the complex social dynamics unfolding around him, Laing bites the bullet and becomes neighbourly. As he struggles to establish his position, Laing’s good manners and sanity disintegrate along with the building. The lights go out and the lifts fail but the party goes on. People are the problem. Booze is the currency. Sex is the panacea. Only much later, as he sits on his balcony eating the architect’s dog, does Dr. Robert Laing finally feel at home...’
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