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  • Trainspotting
  • Opened July 19, 1996 | Runtime:1 hr. 34 min.
  • R
    Sex, Nudity, Graphic Heroin Use, Some Violence and Strong Language
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. Read More
  • Heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Tommy (Kevin McKidd). He also has an underage Read More
  • Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald
  • Director: Danny Boyle
  • Genres: Comedy Drama, Buddy Film, Addiction Drama, Urban Drama

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  • 100
    Salon.com | Charles Taylor

    The most original, daring, thrilling movie to be released this year,...

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    It would be hard to imagine a movie about drugs, depravity, and all-around bad...

  • 90
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Scabrous, brutal and hip, Trainspotting is a "Clockwork Orange" for the '90s.

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Exuberant and pitiless, profane yet eloquent, flush with the ability to create...

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