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.| Status: | Released (1996-02-23) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 23 wins & 35 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $16,491,080 |
| Screen: | Irvine Welsh, John Hodge |
| Productions: | Figment Films, Film4 Productions, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 3061: Ewan McGregor - Renton
- 1125: Ewen Bremner - Spud
- 9012: Jonny Lee Miller - Sick Boy
- 9013: Kevin McKidd - Tommy
- 18023: Robert Carlyle - Begbie
- 9015: Kelly Macdonald - Diane
- 3064: Peter Mullan - Swanney
Crews
- 2034: Danny Boyle - Director - Directing
- 8999: John Hodge - Screenplay - Writing
- 2035: Andrew Macdonald - Producer - Production
- 473: Brian Tufano - Director of Photography - Camera
- 9001: Masahiro Hirakubo - Editor - Editing
- 9002: Andy Pryor - Casting - Production
- 2073: Gail Stevens - Casting - Production
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Reviews
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Review text:
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 ....
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Not the most enthralling, but <em>'Trainspotting'</em> does have plenty to say - and boy does it portray it! There are particularly strong performances from Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle. I didn't like watching the bunch of characters given how severely unlikeable ....
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