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Trainspotting (1996)

Trainspotting (1996)

Drama Crime

Choose life.

Release Date: 1996, February 23
Directors: Danny Boyle
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Figment Films, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, Channel Four Films, DNA Films
Cast: Stuart McQuarrie, Shirley Henderson, Kelly Macdonald, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Kevin McKidd, Ewen Bremner, Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Keith Allen, Robert Carlyle, Eileen Nicholas

Overview:

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

Keywords:

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