Trainspotting (1996)
1823 February 1996 (GB)Drama, Crime1 hour and 34 minutes
80%
Choose life.
Description
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.
Actors
Status
Released
Original language
English
Budget
$4,000,000
Revenue
$72,000,000
Keywords
drug dealerfriendshiplondon, englandbased on novel or bookscotlandheroindrug addictionanti herojunkienightclubcold turkeydark comedyedinburgh, scotlandmodern societyhallucinationsurrealismstealingdrug rehabilitationdrug dealingdrugsschoolgirlrecovering addictillegal drugssocial realismdrug culture