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Trainspotting( 1996)

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Ewan McGregor

      Renton

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      Ewen Bremner

      Spud

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      Jonny Lee Miller

      Sick Boy

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      Kevin McKidd

      Tommy

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      Robert Carlyle

      Begbie

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      Kelly Macdonald

      Diane

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      Peter Mullan

      Swanney

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      James Cosmo

      Renton's Father

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      Eileen Nicholas

      Renton's Mother

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      Susan Vidler

      Allison

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      Pauline Lynch

      Lizzy

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      Shirley Henderson

      Gail

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      Stuart McQuarrie

      Gavin

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      Irvine Welsh

      Mikey Forrester

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      Dale Winton

      Game Show Host

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      Keith Allen

      Dealer

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      Kevin Allen

      Andreas

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      Annie Louise Ross

      Gail's Mother

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      Billy Riddoch

      Gail's Father

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      Fiona Bell

      Diane's Mother

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      Vincent Friell

      Diane's Father

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      Hugh Ross

      Man

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      Victor Eadie

      Man

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      Kate Donnelly

      Woman

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      Finlay Welsh

      Sheriff

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      Eddie Nestor

      Estate Agent

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    Review 2Discussion

    A review by CinemaSerf

    7
    Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Aug 27 2023
    25 years on, and this Danny Boyle effort has lost little of it's authentic, gritty, potency. Set in mid 1990s Edinburgh it follows the antics of a disparate group of friends whose only goals in life are to survive, maybe get laid, and to take each day as it comes... "Begbie" (Robert Carlyle) is their psychopathically charged leader, who thinks nothing of smashing a glass in someone's face; "Spud" (Ewan Bremner) and "Sick Boy" (Jonny Lee Miller) just lurch from one day to the next looking for a fix; "Tommy" (Kevin McKidd) at least tries to live with some semblance of normality - he has a steady ...

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    Videos 6Backdrops 41Posters 85

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    4000000.00

    Revenue

    72000000.00

    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
    • drug culture
    • complex