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Trainspotting

R
Movie
1996
1h 34m
English
Drama, Crime
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 when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
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8.2
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Trainspotting (1996) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
87

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Directed By: Danny Boyle
Written By: John Hodge (Screenplay), Irvine Welsh (Novel)

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Daniel.Darko says...
10 years ago
"It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the f*cking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We're ruled by effete arseholes. It's a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won't make any f*cking difference!" FANTASTIC MOVIE! Choose Trainspotting!!
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Bulma PunkRocker says...
10 years ago
A very good film adaptation of an even better novel! Please read the novel by Irvine Welsh, it's better than the film!
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HeronAnc says...
2 years ago
A great criticism to the addiction to drugs and the subtle bad influences of friendships in life, Trainspotting brings an important message to the youth, with a heavy vibe, a frenetic edition, great movements of camera and a hint of acid humor. I had a kind of fear of this movie be as sad and gore than Requiem for a Dream, but no... I confess that I liked more this one.
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maphiagurl says...
6 years ago
Rewatched this in preparation for T2 being released this week. Still as great as the first 5 viewings back in the day. If you've never seen it ... go and go now!
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AndrewBloom
CONTAINS SPOILERS8/10  9 years ago
There is a pit in my stomach as I write this. Great films stick with you. Great films provoke a reaction. Oftentimes it's joy, or a sense of tragedy, or some lingering glimpse of profundity through art. But other times it's horror; other times it's disgust; other times it's skin-craw More
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hgram
10/10  7 months ago
>"Personality. I mean, that's what counts, right? Personality. I mean, that's what keeps a relationship going through the years.
Like heroin. I mean, heroin's got great fuckin' personality."


>"When you're on junk, you have only one worry. Scoring. And when you're off it, you're suddenly More
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CinemaSerf
12 months ago
25 years on, and this Danny Boyle effort has lost little of it's authentic, gritty, potency. Set in mid 1990s Edinburgh it follows the antics of a disparate group of friends whose only goals in life are to survive, maybe get laid, and to take each day as it comes... "Begbie" (Robert Carlyle) is thei More
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