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1994 Certificate 18
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After three Edinburgh roommates (Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox) finally choose a new roommate they can live with, they find him dead on the floor with a suitcase full of cash. While trying to remove the body and extricate themselves from the situation, they wade hip-deep into a world of drugs, greed, and .. Read more

Starring Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox, Ken Stott
Director Danny Boyle
Genres Drama

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After three Edinburgh roommates (Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox) finally choose a new roommate they can live with, they find him dead on the floor with a suitcase full of cash. While trying to remove the body and extricate themselves from the situation, they wade hip-deep into a world of drugs, greed, and madness. Danny Boyle's first feature film is a delightfully circuitous, nail-biting, and unpretentious noir, with the director--and screenwriter John Hodge--focusing on the gradual psychological disintegration of the roommates. Boyle and Hodge would gain even greater acclaim across the Atlantic with their hit follow-up, TRAINSPOTTING. Eccleston would go on to appear in films such as ELIZABETH and THE OTHERS. McGregor, of course, would become Renton in TRAINSPOTTING and eventually Obi-Wan Kenobi, among many other screen roles.

Starring Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox, Ken Stott, Colin McCredie, Keith Allen, Peter Mullan
Director Danny Boyle
Studio 4DVD
Run time DVD: 1 hr 28 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 28 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Dubbed French
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Dutch, French
Released DVD: 17 Sep 2001
Blu-ray: 01 Jun 2009
Production year: 1994
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (3) of Shallow Grave

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    A worthy, if sometimes overly melodramatic tale from the respected American Playhouse team. Based on the novel by James Purdy, Michael Biehn — cast very much against type — plays a bitter war hero who becomes fascinated with a young man (Patrick Dempsey) working for him. A study in class and sexual tension, it's beautifully acted, if directed at a slack pace.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006
  • 2 stars out of 4

    Energetic, fast-moving thriller that maintains its breathless pace to the end and is done with great panache, almost enough to overlook its faults of unconvincing character shifts, unlikely plot developments and its final burst of insufficiently motivated

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 31 out of 34 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    No depth at all

    Just after I reviewed this film it pops up on Channel 4 again, and it is evn worse than I remembered. One of the flatmates is a doctor and is calling the police when the money is found. Neither of the other flamates knows about it or wants it; so Ewan could have done a runner in the first ten minutes. This time I gave up after a quarter of an hour, convinced my that earlier review was too kind.

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  • 3 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    superb funny but violent thriller

    Set in a gloriously clostrophobic & stragely decorated victorian Edinburgh apartment block this is a great britflick with Ewan Mcgregor et al in fine form .

    Pretty gruesome & if you don't like knives best to look away during the final few scenes .

      • A customer from surrey
      • Posted 15 Mar 2004 13:28

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    Compile a list of the best British movies of the 1990s, there is every reason to think that Trainspotting would be up there in the top three. Indeed, in 1999, when the British Film Institute polled film-makers and scholars for the top 100 Brit films ever, Trainspotting was the only 90s movie to make the Top 20 (it came in at 10). I remember the excitement seeing it for the first time in a small Soho preview theatre, late in 1995 - along with assorted members of Blur, who had contributed to the Read more

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      After three Edinburgh roommates (Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox) finally choose a new roommate they can live with, they find him dead on the floor with a suitcase full of cash. While trying to remove the body and extricate themselves from the situation, they wade hip-deep into ...