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1995

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Starring	Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle
Director	Danny Boyle
Genres	Drama

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Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life otherwise lacks. Renton's two best friends are also junkies: Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), a snappy dresser obsessed with James Bond, and Spud (Ewan Bremner), a guileless nerd who suggests Pee Wee Herman's debauched cousin. Renton and his pals also hang out with Begbie (Robert Carlyle), a borderline psychotic who loathes junkies even though he drinks like a fish. After one too many brushes with the law, Renton kicks heroin and moves to London, where he finds a job, a flat, and something close to peace of mind. However, Sick Boy, Begbie, and Spud all arrive at his doorstep on the trail of a big score, leading Renton back into drugs and crime.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Starring	Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald, Ewen Bremner
Director	Danny Boyle
Studio	4DVD
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 29 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate
Collections	Full English, Top 100 Best of British
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Released	Production year: 1995 To Rent: DVD: 01 Jun 2009 Blu-ray: 01 Jun 2009

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- Exuberant and pitiless, profane yet eloquent, flush with the ability to create laughter out of unspeakable situations, TRAINSPOTTING is a drop-dead look at a dead-end lifestyle that has all the strength of its considerable contradictions.
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  nothing to do with Hornby
  
  This movie takes an odd look at life, more specifically, an odd look at heroin. The dirty, desperate, colourless depiction of addicts is clear and present but ... read more »
  
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  Utterly depressing
  
  I'm sorry to disagree with all the praises for this film, but for me, it was completely depressing. Junkies, dealers, squalor, really disgusting scenes. I ... read more »
  
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  Trainspotting is Heart Stopping
  
  British drama's are my favourite films, such as lock, stock & two smoking barrels, Snatch, Human Traffic, The Football Factory and others. This could be... read more »
  
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  A scottish classic one of the best films to come out of the crime/drug scene.
  
  All the actors were great especially Robert Carlise he is so funny as ... read more »
  
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Harry Potter has 'Trainspotting moments', says Radcliffe
- 04 Jul 2008
Actor Daniel Radcliffe has likened new film Harry Potter And The Half Blood to Danny Boyle's cult film Trainspotting. David Yates, the film's director, told Empire magazine that the sixth movie would be the "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" instalment of the hugely successful franchise. Radcliffe laughed off the comments, but agreed that it was more edgy then its predecessors. "Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll? Thanks, David, that's a comment I'll have to fend off for months,"... Read more
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  A kinetic, intimate look inside the subculture of heroin abuse, this acclaimed adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel follows the misadventures of Renton (Ewan McGregor), a brash twenty-something Edinburgh junkie, and his nihilistic chums Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Tommy (Kevin ...

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  Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life ...