Trainspotting (1996)
Storyline
Mark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Directors
Cast
Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd, Stuart McQuarrie, Robert Carlyle, Shirley Henderson, Kelly Macdonald, Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Hugh Ross, Keith Allen, Eileen Nicholas, Irvine Welsh, Eddie Nestor, Kevin Allen, Susan Vidler, Pauline Lynch, Annie Louise Ross, Billy Riddoch, Dale Winton, Victor Eadie, Kate Donnelly
Trailer
Reviews
100
It would be hard to imagine a movie about drugs, depravity, and all-around bad behavior more electrifying than Trainspotting.
100
Film.com
Keeps you engaged in this story of a memorable anti-hero for our times.
100
Chicago Tribune
Heroin may be a downer, but Trainspotting definitely takes you up…a series of roaring, provocative, outrageous highs. [26 July 1996, Friday, p.C]
90
TNT RoughCut
Irresistibly bleak appeal.
87
Mr. Showbiz
It's a disturbing film in the best sense.
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