Choose life. 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.
John Hodge
Screenplay
Danny Boyle
Director
7.96
Rating10K
Votes5.07
Popularity7380
Recommend4M
Budget72M
Revenue1800%
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Ewan McGregor
Renton
Ewen Bremner
Spud
Jonny Lee Miller
Sick Boy
Kevin McKidd
Tommy
Robert Carlyle
Begbie
Kelly Macdonald
Diane
Peter Mullan
Swanney
James Cosmo
Renton's Father
Eileen Nicholas
Renton's Mother
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A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, and clean-cut athlete Tommy.
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Movies7.5
Rating6640
Votes4.13
Popularity22M
Budget114M
RevenueRecommendations
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Keywords:
drug dealer
friendship
london, england
based on novel or book
scotland
heroin
drug addiction
anti hero
junkie
nightclub
cold turkey
dark comedy
edinburgh, scotland
modern society
hallucination
surrealism
stealing
drug rehabilitation
drug dealing
drugs
schoolgirl
recovering addict
illegal drugs
social realism
aggressive
drug culture
irreverent
provocative
Procution companies:
Figment Films
The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company
Channel Four Films
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