Anti-Social (film)

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Anti-Social
Anti-Social 2015 Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Reg Traviss
Screenplay by Reg Traviss
Produced by
  • Mouktar Mohammed
  • Greg Szetlik
Starring
CinematographyBryan Loftus
Edited byEdmund Swabey
Music by George Kallis
Production
companies
RST Pictures
JRSM Films
Origo Film Group
Distributed byMarco Polo Production
Release date
  • 1 May 2015 (2015-05-01)
Running time
116 minutes
CountriesHungary
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Anti-Social is a 2015 Hungarian-British crime film written and directed by Reg Traviss and starring Gregg Sulkin, Meghan Markle, and Josh Myers.

Contents

Premise

In London, a successful street artist is forced to jeopardise his future to help his criminal brother when gang rivalry escalates. [1]

Cast

Reception

The film has a 25% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [2] Cath Clarke of Time Out , Alan Jones of Radio Times and Mark Kermode and Leslie Felperin of The Guardian all gave the film two stars out of five. [3] [4] [5] [6] Simon Crook of Empire gave the film one star out of five. [7]

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References

  1. "ANTI-SOCIAL (2015)". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  2. "Anti-Social". Rotten Tomatoes . Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  3. Clarke, Cath (27 April 2015). "Anti-Social". Time Out . Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  4. Jones, Alan. "Anti-Social". Radio Times . Archived from the original on 30 November 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  5. Kermode, Mark (3 May 2015). "Anti-Social review – Brit crime caper with added graffiti". The Guardian . Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  6. Felperin, Leslie (30 April 2015). "Anti-Social review – stage-school acting but good Michael Mann shoot-out pastiches". The Guardian . Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  7. Crook, Simon (14 October 2015). "Anti-Social Review". Empire . Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.