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Storyline

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.

Released

1996-02-23
Revenue

$71,981,823
Budget

$4,000,000
Runtime

1hr 34m
Genre

Drama, Crime
Status

Released
Language

English
8.1
Production

Figment Films, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, Channel Four Films

Crew

Danny Boyle

Director

John Hodge

Screenplay

Andrew Macdonald

Producer

Keywords:

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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

Pauline Lynch

Lizzy

Shirley Henderson

Gail

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Gavin

Irvine Welsh

Mikey Forrester

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Game Show Host

Keith Allen

Dealer

Kevin Allen

Andreas

Annie Louise Ross

Gail's Mother

Billy Riddoch

Gail's Father

Fiona Bell

Diane's Mother

Vincent Friell

Diane's Father

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Man

Victor Eadie

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Reviews for Trainspotting

A Review by Geronimo1967 7

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2023-08-27

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 antic... read more

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 girlfriend "Diana" (Kelly Macdonald) and finally Ewan McGregor ("Renton"), whom along with his worldly, and in their way loving, parents, might just see a way of escaping from this relentless misery... What helps this stand out is the fact that director Boyle misses few opportunities to depict the grim depravity in which these people live. Its graphic, violent, distressing certainly, but it is also funny and eminently human - there is a definite sense of "there but for the grace of God" about many of the scenarios and they tugs at the heart strings whilst simultaneously making you cower and wince in disgust or sometimes even fear. The efforts from the talent in indistinguishably good - especially Bremner and JLM whose roles are not so significant as Messrs Carlyle & McGregor's, but who add a depth and richness to what could otherwise just prove to be a rather downbeat tale of hopelessness and emptiness. For once, the gratuitous (for, that it is) use of good old Anglo-Saxon expletives doesn't not appear merely to compensate for a lack of script-writing skills; here the language and violence add significantly to the plausibility of the whole thing - it's ghastly, yet compelling to watch and watch again. It works well again on a big screen, even though the cinematography doesn't really require anything to present scale or grandness, and the soundtrack adds a deliciously contemporaneous dollop of nostalgia, too. Not for the fainthearted, but - in my view - the finest work from all concerned that stands the test of time very well.

A Review by r96sk 9

Written by r96sk on 2024-05-30

Not the most enthralling, but <em>'Trainspotting'</em> does have plenty to say - and boy does it portray it! There are particularly stron... read more

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A Review by CinemaSerf

A Review by Geronimo1967 7

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2023-08-27

A Review by r96sk 9

Written by r96sk on 2024-05-30

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 C...