Genre: Drama
Length: 1h 34m 0s
Director: Danny Boyle
Tagline: Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental insurance, leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose your future. But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?
Plot outline: A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them... Summary written by Michael Brooke {michael@everyman.demon.co.uk} A group of disaffected Scottish youths turn to heroin to escape the banalities of modern-day existence. Then, they begin to suffer the consequences and discover that there are no easy solutions to the inherent loneliness and pain of life. Summary written by Tad Dibbern {DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu}
Comment: Next to "Pulp Fiction" or "Fight Club" "Trainspotting" is one of the definitely cult movies of the 90s! There is a great soundtrack (Iggy Pop, Blur, Underworld...) and there are some great actors, especially Robert Carlyle performing the choleric Francis Begbie. This film is not a conventional drama with the typical moral that sounds like "Keep your hands away from drugs!", it is more a very grotesque comedy: "Trainspotting" shows the everyday life of junkies in Scotland, but not in a dramatic or pitiful way. When Mark Renton and his friends shoot heroin, deal with drugs, become criminals or try to make their best wretched existence it seems to be so cool and funny that you won´t believe that they are social outsiders. This film shouldn´t be threaten as a social study, it is more a movie about the way of life of generation X. At the end Ewan McGregor puts it in a nutshell: "Disassociate yourself from drugs, and say hello to your life, to television and building savings agreements..." (10/10)
IMDB Rating: 7.9
Country: UK
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CDs: 0
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| Actors: | ||
| Ewan McGregor | as | Mark 'Rent-boy' Renton |
| Ewen Bremner | as | Daniel 'Spud' Murphy |
| Jonny Lee Miller | as | Simon David 'Sick Boy' Williamson |
| Kevin McKidd | as | Tommy MacKenzie |