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About
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.
Theatrical
Aug 9, 1996
DVD / Blu-ray
Mar 25, 1998
Box Office
$72.0M
Budget
$4.0M
Return
18.0x
Director
Writer
Producer
Studio
Figment Films, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, DNA Films, Channel Four Films
Keywords
london, england
scotland
drug abuse
based on novel or book
drug addiction
anti hero
drug dealer
nightclub
junkie
heroin
cold turkey
edinburgh, scotland
modern society
hallucination
friendship
addiction
surrealism
dark comedy
stealing
drug rehabilitation
drug dealing
drugs
schoolgirl
recovering addict
illegal drugs
social realism
shocking
drug culture
excited
Cast
Full credits →E
Ewan McGregor
Renton
E
Ewen Bremner
Spud
J
Jonny Lee Miller
Sick Boy
K
Kevin McKidd
Tommy
R
Robert Carlyle
Begbie
Kelly Macdonald
Diane
P
Peter Mullan
Swanney
J
James Cosmo
Renton's Father
E
Eileen Nicholas
Renton's Mother
S
Susan Vidler
Allison
P
Pauline Lynch
Lizzy
S
Shirley Henderson
Gail
S
Stuart McQuarrie
Gavin
I
Irvine Welsh
Mikey Forrester
D
Dale Winton
Game Show Host
K
Keith Allen
Dealer
K
Kevin Allen
Andreas
A
Annie Louise Ross
Gail's Mother
B
Billy Riddoch
Gail's Father
F
Fiona Bell
Diane's Mother
Trainspotting Collection
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Quotes
See all →Casual Conversation Between Friends
Renton
Getting out much, Tommy?
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
A Miscommunication Over Lost Cards
Begbie
Did you bring the cards?
Sick Boy
What?
Begbie
The cards, the last thing I told you was to mind the cards!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
