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In September 1975, Dr Robert Laing lives in a ravaged high-rise tower block, killing a dog and spit-roasting its leg. Three months earlier, the 40-storey tower on the outskirts of London, built by esteemed architect Anthony Royal, is the epitome of chic, modern living. Wealthy residents live on the top floors, and poorer residents live below.
Apr 28, 2016 · And he laces it with an almost expressionless grandeur as protagonist Robert Laing in High-Rise, Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel. The British film, which screened at the ...
May 13, 2016 · Tom Hiddleston plays Laing, a smooth physician and teacher whose social anxieties don’t need much coaxing in order to surface, his placid and well kempt exterior notwithstanding. A few floors above him is the seductive, secretive Charlotte ( Sienna Miller ); almost twenty stories below him is Wilder ( Luke Evans ), a bluff, macho documentary producer.
May 12, 2016 · And now he stars in Ben Wheatley's grotesque adaption of J.G. Ballard's 1970s sci-fi novel, High-Rise, opening in the U.S. on May 13. Hiddleston portrays Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident in a ...
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May 12, 2016 · R. 1h 59m. By A.O. Scott. May 12, 2016. Robert Laing, a handsome doctor with tired eyes and a skeptical smirk — which is to say a doctor played by Tom Hiddleston — remarks at one point that he ...
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Nov 22, 2015 · Enter Robert Laing (Hiddleston), a young doctor seduced by the high-rise and its creator, the visionary architect Anthony Royal (Irons). Laing discovers a world of complex loyalties, and also ...
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May 12, 2016 · The Haves And Have-Nots Have At It In 'High-Rise' Based on J.G ... of the Category 4 hurricane is Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston), a handsome bachelor who lives on the 25th floor, squeezed ...
