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The Loft (2014)

The Loft poster
Directed by
Erik Van Looy
Genre
erotic film, mystery film, thriller film, erotic thriller, LGBTQ-related film
Country
Belgium, United States
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
R
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 1,584 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Five married men share a secret penthouse for extramarital affairs. When a woman is found dead there, the friends begin to suspect one another.

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What happens

The Loft is a 2014 erotic thriller film directed by Erik Van Looy. It is a remake of the 2008 Dutch-language Belgian film Loft, which Van Looy also directed. The screenplay was written by Bart De Pauw and adapted by Wesley Strick. Starring Karl Urban, James Marsden, and Wentworth Miller, it also features Matthias Schoenaerts, who reprises his role from the original film. The film was shot in mid-2011, but its theatrical release was delayed by a change of the film distributor. Dark Castle Entertainment originally acquired the US distribution rights, as they did for Splice, with the intention of releasing the film through Warner Bros. When Joel Silver moved his office to Universal Studios, he took Dark Castle, and the film with him. Universal planned to release the film on August 29, 2014, but the studio pulled it from the schedule in favor of Legendary Pictures' As Above, So Below. Universal and Dark Castle dropped the film, which was then picked up by Open Road Films, who released it on January 30, 2015. Universal retained the US home entertainment rights through its ancillaries deal with Open Road. Dark Castle did not release another film until 2017's Suburbicon with Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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