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Release Date: 1996

Cast: Peter Mullan, Jonny Lee Miller, Irvine Welsh, Ewen Bremner, Fiona Bell, Susan Vidler, Eileen Nicholas, Billy Riddoch, James Cosmo, Ewan McGregor, Kelly Macdonald, Keith Allen ...MORE

Cast: Peter Mullan, Jonny Lee Miller, Irvine Welsh, Ewen Bremner, Fiona Bell, Susan Vidler, Eileen Nicholas, Billy Riddoch, James Cosmo, Ewan McGregor, Kelly Macdonald, Keith Allen, Kevin McKidd, Dale Winton, Stuart McQuarrie, Robert Carlyle, Pauline Lynch, Vincent Friell, Kevin Allen, Shirley Henderson, Victor Eadie, Hugh Ross, Eddie Nestor, Finlay Welsh, Annie Louise Ross ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Buddy film, Indie, Comedy-drama, Addiction Drama, Cult, Comedy, Film adaptation, Black comedy

Trainspotting is a 1996 British crime drama film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh (who played hapless drug dealer Mikey Forrester). The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life. The film stars Ewan McGregor as Renton, Ewen Bremner as Spud, Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy, Kevin McKidd as Tommy, Robert Carlyle as Begbie, and Kelly Macdonald as Diane. The Academy Award-nominated screenplay, by John Hodge, was adapted from Welsh's novel. The title of the film refers... MORE

Trainspotting is a 1996 British crime drama film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh (who played hapless drug dealer Mikey Forrester). The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life. The film stars Ewan McGregor as Renton, Ewen Bremner as Spud, Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy, Kevin McKidd as Tommy, Robert Carlyle as Begbie, and Kelly Macdonald as Diane. The Academy Award-nominated screenplay, by John Hodge, was adapted from Welsh's novel. The title of the film refers to a hobby of sitting and watching trains pass by and is used as a metaphor for wasting time. Beyond drug addiction, other concurrent themes in the film are exploration of the urban poverty and squalor in "culturally rich" Edinburgh. The film has been ranked 10th spot by the British Film Institute (BFI) in its list of Top 100 British films of all time. In 2004 the film was voted the best Scottish film of all time in a general public poll. The film begins with Mark Renton's (Ewan McGregor) narration as he and his friend Spud (Ewen Bremner) run down Princes Street pursued by security guards. Renton LESS