Story Line
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.”
Top Cast
Ewan McGregor
Renton
Ewen Bremner
Spud
Jonny Lee Miller
Sick Boy
Kevin McKidd
Tommy
Robert Carlyle
Begbie
Kelly Macdonald
Diane
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Rating
8.0/ 10
Release Date
1996-02-23
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
DramaCrime
Part of the Series
Trainspotting Collection
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User Reviews (3)
CinemaSerf
7/10
•8/27/202325 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 da...
r96sk
9/10
•5/30/2024Not 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 charac...
badelf
9/10
•3/17/2026**Trainspotting** (1996)
_Directed by Danny Boyle_
Danny Boyle's Trainspotting is sardonic in the truest sense, both in style and story. It doesn't make fun of addiction, doesn't glamorize it, doesn't preach about it. Instead, it presents the w...