Trainspotting (1996)
Release: February 23, 1996 | Runtime: 1h 34m | Rating: 8.0
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.
Choose life.
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Main cast
- Ewan McGregor as Renton
- Ewen Bremner as Spud
- Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy
- Kevin McKidd as Tommy
- Robert Carlyle as Begbie
- Kelly Macdonald as Diane
- Peter Mullan as Swanney
- James Cosmo as Renton's Father
- Eileen Nicholas as Renton's Mother
- Susan Vidler as Allison
- Pauline Lynch as Lizzy
- Shirley Henderson as Gail
- Stuart McQuarrie as Gavin
- Irvine Welsh as Mikey Forrester
- Dale Winton as Game Show Host
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What is Trainspotting about?
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.
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