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Trainspotting

Trainspotting

8.0/ 10

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1996

Release Year

94 min

Runtime

Drama
Crime

Overview

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 as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

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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
drug culture
excited

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Reviews(3)

8.3avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

August 27, 2023

7
7/10

25 years on, and this Danny Boyle effort has lost little of it's authentic, gritty, potency. Set in mid 1990s Edinburgh it follows the antics of a disparate group of friends whose only goals in life are to survive, maybe get laid, and to take each day as it comes... "Begbie" (Robert Carlyle) is thei

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r96sk

r96sk

May 30, 2024

9
9/10

Not the most enthralling, but <em>'Trainspotting'</em> does have plenty to say - and boy does it portray it! There are particularly strong performances from Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle. I didn't like watching the bunch of characters given how severely unlikeable they are. Of co

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badelf

March 17, 2026

9
9/10

**Trainspotting** (1996) _Directed by Danny Boyle_ Danny Boyle's Trainspotting is sardonic in the truest sense, both in style and story. It doesn't make fun of addiction, doesn't glamorize it, doesn't preach about it. Instead, it presents the whole grotesque cycle with dark wit and visual auda

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