Trainspotting

Produced in 1996

Trainspotting

Film Information

Festival Edition 1999 - Edition 3
Section General
Director Danny Boyle
Country Great Britain
Duration 94 min
Category International Feature Films 1999
Screenplay John Hodge
Cast Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller

Synopsis

Based on the cult novel by Irvine Welsh. Smart, funny, sick and sometimes just plain unconscious. Mark Renton is a hero for our times. His life, a garbled mixture of sex, drugs, rock and roll and football, is a bit of a mess. What with the boredom and the scams and the drinking and the unconventional courtship rituals, he barely has time to cook up his next fix. And then there's the bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies he has to call friends. Now once in a while he'd like to get away and quit this habit of a lifetime but poor Mark Renton just cannot kick it. The boy can't help it. He's in love with this world.