| Year: |
2002 |
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| Genre: |
Comedy / Drama |
| Director: |
Danny Boyle |
| Cast: |
Ewan McGregor - Renton
Ewen Bremner - Spud
Jonny Lee Miller - Sick Boy
Kevin McKidd - Tommy
Robert Carlyle - Begbie |
Drugs used: Meth, Coke and
Ecstacy
Tagline: Choose life. Choose
a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental insurance, leisure
wear and matching luggage. Choose your future.
The Story: With its
hallucinatory visions of crawling dead babies and a grungy
plunge into the filthiest toilet in Scotland, you might not
think Trainspotting could have been one of the best movies of
1996, but Danny Boyle's film about unrepentant heroin addicts in
Edinburgh is all that and more.
Trainspottings blend of hyperkinetic humor
and real-life horror is constantly fascinating, and the entire
cast (led by Ewan McGregor and Full Monty star Robert Carlyle)
bursts off of the screen in a supernova of outrageous energy.
Adapted by John Hodge from the acclaimed novel by Irving Welsh,
the film was a phenomenal hit in England, Scotland, and (to a
lesser extent) the U.S. For all of its comedic vitality and
invigorating filmmaking, Trainspotting is no ode to heroin, nor
is it a straight-laced cautionary tale. Trainspotting is just a
very honest and well-made film about the nature of addiction,
and it doesn't pull any punches when it is time to show the
alternating pleasure and pain of substance abuse.
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