Trainspotting (1996)
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ReviewsDrug-induced masterpiece5 years, 9 months ago at Aug 24 15:52
9 votes This film is beautiful, funny, shocking, brutal, tragic, and hopeful. First time I saw it, I didn't like it much, mostly because its so hard to understand those scottish accents, but I now view it as a genuine masterpiece and destined to become a classic. Trainspotting is a story about a bunch of friends, and I use term 'friends' in the loosest sense, that have only one thing in ... read more Choose your future, Choose Life.3 years, 4 months ago at Dec 28 18:33
6 votes ''Take the best orgasm you've ever had... multiply it by a thousand, and you're still nowhere near it.''Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. Ewan McGregor: Renton Danny Boyle's Trainspotting is a film in which it all clicks and comes together in a ... read more Review5 years, 6 months ago at Nov 15 17:25
3 votes Danny Boyle makes a film that manages to get us to sympathise with a bunch of Scottish heroin addics. It can't be easy to do such a thing. The film is extremely funny at times, bleak at others, but the one emotion that pervades the entire film is hopelessness. Even once Ewan McGregor's character starts to make something of his life, he is still plagued by his old friends and eventually plumets bac... 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, a brash, twenty-something Edinburgh junkie, and his nihilistic chums Tommy, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie. Alternately comic and off-putting, the film ultimately comes down to Renton's choi
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Release date : 19 July 1996
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