Trainspotting (1996)

02/23/1996 (GB) • 1h 34m

Drama, Crime

Choose life.

Overview

Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seemingly towards a psychotic, drug-fuelled self-destruction.

Top Billed Cast


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Part of the Trainspotting Collection

Includes Trainspotting, T2 Trainspotting

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$4,000,000.00

Revenue

$71,981,823.00

Keywords

drug dealer

friendship

london, england

based on novel or book

scotland

heroin

drug addiction

anti hero

junkie

nightclub

cold turkey

dark comedy

edinburgh, scotland

modern society

hallucination

surrealism

stealing

drug rehabilitation

drug dealing

drugs

schoolgirl

recovering addict

illegal drugs

social realism

aggressive

drug culture

irreverent

provocative

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