Trainspotting (1996)
18
23/02/1996 (GB)
Drama, Crime
1h 34m
- 80% (9819 votes)
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Choose life.
Overview
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
- Danny BoyleDirector
- John HodgeScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$4,000,000
Revenue
$71,981,823
Keywords
- drug dealer
- friendship
- london, england
- based on novel or book
- scotland
- heroin
- drug addiction
- anti hero
- junkie
- nightclub
- cold turkey
- dark comedy
- edinburgh, scotland
- modern society
- hallucination
- surrealism
- stealing
- drug rehabilitation
- drug dealing
- drugs
- schoolgirl
- recovering addict
- illegal drugs
- social realism
- aggressive
- drug culture
- irreverent
- provocative
Top Billed Cast
Ewan McGregor
Renton
Ewen Bremner
Spud
Jonny Lee Miller
Sick Boy
Kevin McKidd
Tommy
Robert Carlyle
Begbie
Kelly Macdonald
Diane
Peter Mullan
Swanney
James Cosmo
Renton's Father
Eileen Nicholas
Renton's Mother
Susan Vidler
Allison
Recommendations
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The Usual Suspects (82%)
Requiem for a Dream (80%)
Christiane F. (73%)
Shallow Grave (70%)
The Silence of the Lambs (83%)
Pulp Fiction (85%)
Donnie Darko (78%)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (72%)
