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Trainspotting (1996)

8 Listal rating
8.2 IMDB rating

4 Videos

53 Pictures

3 Reviews

108 Lists

995 Ratings

Drugs (41), Drama (34), Comedy (20), Crime (17), 1990s (14), British (12), 1996 (9), Addiction (9), (8), UK (8), Scotland (8), Based On Book (6), Scottish (5), Aids (4), Based On Novel (4), Heist (4), Adaptation (3), Junkie (3), Black Comedy (3), IMDb Top250 (3)

Description

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 choice between sel ... (more)


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Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan

Swanney
James Cosmo

James Cosmo

Mr. Renton
Eileen Nicholas

Eileen Nicholas

Mrs. Renton
Susan Vidler

Susan Vidler

Allison


Written by (View all) :
Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

(novel)
John Hodge

John Hodge

(screenplay)


Videos

Trainspotting - The Full Toilet Scene.

don't you wish you made that masterpiece?(

Trainspotting Intro Scene

Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

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Ratings of Trainspotting







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Cult !!!

Posted : 1 month, 2 weeks ago at Oct 7 12:54
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace you...Read more

Review

Posted : 2 years ago at Nov 15 17:25
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 back to his former life as a druggie. This film should be enough to put anybody off of the drug for the rest of their lives. How can anybody put this stuff into their bodies!? It's beyond me. I don't like to watch this film very often, because of the absolutely scummy surroundings it reminds me of, but Franco Begbie is one character that is worth his weight in pure gold. One of Robert Carlyles on...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Drug-induced masterpiece

Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago at Aug 24 15:52
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 common - they're all junkies. Every character is unique. Renton is the most 'normal' of the bunch, comes from a decent family, but keeps falling back into a life of crime and drugs. Sick Boy is ... man, i thought it'd be easier to explain this film... lol... truth as I'm writing this, I realize that it's a really hard film to review, and even harder to explain WHY I loved it. It basically falls into a...Read more

Rating : 10/10