Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller
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.
DVD Release Date: March 24, 1998
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Flixster Reviews (19,246)
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September 16, 2009I remember at collage in the mid 90's everyone thought it was cool to be Scottish and/or a recovering drug user. Overrated but still enjoyable! Hated the book though, I thought it was a load of contrived rubbish that made no sense!
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September 16, 2009A group of Scottish junkies and misfits try to make their way in 90s Britain. Trainspotting is a true zeitgeist movie, and sums up perfectly the time in which it was made. Irvine Walsh's story is well observed and full of amusing tirades against 90s society with drug references t...( read more)
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September 7, 2009Reminded me a lot of Requiem for a Dream. Pretty funny and, at times, very disturbing as well.
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June 15, 2009Trainspotting doesn't glorify heroin. It glorifies youth. Youth at its worst, mostly, but youth trying to sort things as only youth can. Watch it again on video and it's still, in parts, hilariously funny. But whereas in the cinema peer pressure helped everyone laugh as the junki...( read more)
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April 3, 2009This film was in the theaters my freshman year in college. I saw it in a place nicknamed the "Brew n' View", which means that while our beers (and glow in the dark shots brought around mid-viewing) didn't exactly match the heroin high glamorized in the movie, at least they dulle...( read more)
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November 13, 2009In the hands of someone like Shane Meadows this film would be so depressing it would make Eraserhead look like a Disney movie. In Boyle's hands it's injected with something that's probably illegal, and turns what could easily be a miserably bleak film into something witty, smart ...( read more)
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November 11, 2009The opening scene is my all-time favorite movie scene, and not just because of Iggy Pop. I was really pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this film. It is about so much more than junkies. Another thing that surprised me was that I could actually understand the whole film wit...( read more)
Critic Reviews
April 12, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Trainspotting is a singular sensation, a visionary knockout spiked with insight, wild invention and outrageous wit. full review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The movie has been attacked as pro-drug and defended as anti-drug, but actually it is simply pragmatic. It knows that addiction leads to an unmanageable, exhausting, intensely uncomfortable daily rout... full review
January 1, 2000
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
This is not dour social realism. It's a shot- from-a-cannon youth movie, with likable young people sticking needles in their arms in working-class Edinburgh. full review
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November 21, 2007Shirley Henderson also played a small part in it. Why is she not included? x
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October 24, 2007what a movie.. it gives you different persepective of drugs abusing, why they're doing it, why do they keep doing it, etc.
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August 27, 2007Probably as good as it will ever get from Danny Boyle - but hey, that is also pretty damn good!
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June 18, 2007making a film out of a book like trainspotting was a mammoth task, but i dont think anyone else could have done it better
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February 28, 2007Many favourite scenes :)
Especially when hes cracked out his head @ the job interview (Was that Spud or sick boy) oh well you seen film you'll know what I mean
Then theres Iggy Pop playing as there running down the streets & rolling over car bonnets
"Probaly the worst toilets in scotland"
"1 is my favourite character , I cnt read the poster that size & forget name *mumbles*
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December 9, 2006i thought this movie was really well done. hats off to irvine welsh and everyone involved. i saw this when i was in my teens. it put me off drugs forever.
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October 13, 2006yo!!!!!! i noticed there wasnt a trainspotting skin(disgrace) so i made one...its not very good,but if you think its sexy you can use it.lofl
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