High-Rise

In High-Rise, Dr. Robert Laing (Hiddleston) recently moved into a luxury, high-tech concrete skyscraper apartment building designed by the enigmatic Mr. Royal (Irons). The building is divided into two social classes: the upper floors enjoy the best amenities while residents on the lower floors experience routine blackouts and other disruptions of basic services. Laing's apartment is amongst the upper class. Laing quickly settles into high society life and meets the building's eccentric tenants: Charlotte (Miller), his upstairs neighbor and bohemian single mother; Wilder (Evans), a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife Helen (Moss); and Mr. Royal. Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war. Based on the novel by J.G. Ballard. (Gary Reber)