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23/02/1996 Drama, Crime 1h 34m
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Choose life.

Overview

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.

  1. Danny Boyle

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Ewan McGregor

    Renton

  2. Ewen Bremner

    Spud

  3. Jonny Lee Miller

    Sick Boy

  4. Kevin McKidd

    Tommy

  5. Robert Carlyle

    Begbie

  6. Kelly Macdonald

    Diane

  7. Peter Mullan

    Swanney

  8. James Cosmo

    Renton's Father

  9. Eileen Nicholas

    Renton's Mother

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-08-27
25 years on, and this Danny Boyle effort has lost little of it's authentic, gritty, potency. Set in mid 1990s Edinburgh it follows the antics of a disparate group of friends whose only goals in life are to survive, maybe get laid, and to take each day as it comes... "Begbie" (Robert Carlyle) is their psychopathically charged leader, who thinks nothing of smashing a glass in someone's face; "Spud" (Ewan Bremner) and "Sick Boy" (Jonny Lee Miller) just lurch from one day to the next looking for a fix; "Tommy" (Kevin McKidd) at least tries to live with some semblance of normality - he has a steady...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$4,000,000.00

Revenue
$71,981,823.00

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