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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 23, 1996
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Miramax,DNA Films,Film4 Productions,Noel Gay Motion Picture Company,Figment Films,The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company
- Cast
- Ewan McGregor,Ewen Bremner,Jonny Lee Miller,Kevin McKidd,Robert Carlyle,Kelly Macdonald,Peter Mullan,James Cosmo,Eileen Nicholas,Susan Vidlerand 16 more
- Director
- Danny Boyle
- Writer
- John Hodge,Irvine Welsh
- Producer
- Andrew Macdonald
- Cinematography
- Brian Tufano
- Budget
- $4,000,000
- Revenue
- $71,981,823
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- View on IMDb