Trainspotting (1996)

  • R
  • 07/15/1996 (US)
  • Drama, Crime
  • 1h 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 when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

John Hodge

Screenplay

Danny Boyle

Director

Irvine Welsh

Novel

Cast

Ewan McGregor's headshot

Ewan McGregor

Renton
Ewen Bremner's headshot

Ewen Bremner

Spud
Jonny Lee Miller's headshot

Jonny Lee Miller

Sick Boy
Kevin McKidd's headshot

Kevin McKidd

Tommy
Robert Carlyle's headshot

Robert Carlyle

Begbie
Kelly Macdonald's headshot

Kelly Macdonald

Diane
Peter Mullan's headshot

Peter Mullan

Swanney
James Cosmo's headshot

James Cosmo

Renton's Father

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