Movie
Trainspotting
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 as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
Details
- Release date
- 1996-02-23
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Figment Films, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, Channel Four Films, DNA Films
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
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
Crew
- Danny Boyle - Director
- John Hodge - Screenplay
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