Trainspotting

Trainspotting (1996)

Choose life.

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.

Date of release
1996-02-23
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (10739)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama, Crime
Director
Danny Boyle

Casting

  • Ewan McGregor — Renton
  • Ewen Bremner — Spud
  • Jonny Lee Miller — Sick Boy
  • Kevin McKidd — Tommy
  • Robert Carlyle — Begbie
  • Kelly Macdonald — Diane
  • Peter Mullan — Swanney
  • James Cosmo — Renton's Father
  • Eileen Nicholas — Renton's Mother
  • Susan Vidler — Allison
  • Pauline Lynch — Lizzy
  • Shirley Henderson — Gail

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