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Trainspotting

Choose life.

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  • 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.

Keywords

  • anti hero
  • based on novel or book
  • drug dealer
  • friendship
  • drug addiction
  • london
  • england
  • social realism
  • addiction
  • drugs
  • excited
  • dark comedy
  • surrealism
  • stealing
  • hallucination
  • scotland
  • nightclub
  • drug abuse
  • heroin
  • junkie
  • cold turkey
  • edinburgh
  • modern society
  • monologue
  • drug rehabilitation
  • drug dealing
  • schoolgirl
  • recovering addict
  • illegal drugs
  • drug culture
  • london, england
  • edinburgh, scotland

Details

Status
Released
Release date
February 23, 1996
Original language
English
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United Kingdom
Director
Danny Boyle
Cinematography
Brian Tufano
Budget
$4,000,000
Revenue
$71,981,823
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