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Trainspotting (1996)

R02/23/1996Drama, Crime1h 34m

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 as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Ewan McGregor

    Renton

  2. Cast 1

    Ewen Bremner

    Spud

  3. Cast 1

    Jonny Lee Miller

    Sick Boy

  4. Cast 1

    Kevin McKidd

    Tommy

  5. Cast 1

    Robert Carlyle

    Begbie

  6. Cast 1

    Kelly Macdonald

    Diane

  7. Cast 1

    Peter Mullan

    Swanney

  8. Cast 1

    James Cosmo

    Renton's Father

  9. Cast 1

    Eileen Nicholas

    Renton's Mother

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...