Trainspotting

Trainspotting

94 mins | Drama, Crime | Feb. 23, 1996

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.

Trainspotting

94 mins | Drama, Crime | Feb. 23, 1996

Trainspotting
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.
IMDb rating 8.1
Producers Figment Films, Film4 Productions, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company
Original title Trainspotting
Directors Claire Hughes, Ben Johnson, Anne Coulter, David Gilchrist, Danny Boyle
Writers John Hodge, Irvine Welsh

Cast

Ewan McGregor

as Mark "Rent Boy" Renton

Ewen Bremner

as Daniel "Spud" Murphy

Jonny Lee Miller

as Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson

Kevin McKidd

as Thomas "Tommy" MacKenzie

Robert Carlyle

as Francis "Franco" Begbie

Kelly Macdonald

as Diane Coulston

Peter Mullan

as Swanney "Mother Superior"

James Cosmo

as Mr. Renton

Eileen Nicholas

as Mrs. Renton

Susan Vidler

as Allison

Pauline Lynch

as Lizzy

Shirley Henderson

as Gail Houston

Stuart McQuarrie

as Gavin Temperley

Irvine Welsh

as Mikey Forrester

Dale Winton

as Game Show Host

Keith Allen

as Dealer

Kevin Allen

as Andreas

Annie Louise Ross

as Gail's Mother

Billy Riddoch

as Gail's Father

Fiona Bell

as Diane's Mother

Hugh Ross

as Man

Victor Eadie

as Man

Kate Donnelly

as Woman

Finlay Welsh

as Sheriff

Eddie Nestor

as Estate Agent