Trainspotting (1996)
Trainspotting
7.9
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Directed by: Danny Boyle
Overview
Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seemingly towards a psychotic, drug-fuelled self-destruction.
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Reviews (2)
CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)
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 thei...
r96sk (Rated: 9)
Not the most enthralling, but 'Trainspotting' does have plenty to say - and boy does it portray it!
There are particularly strong performances from Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle. I didn't like watching the bunch of characters given how severely unlikeable they are. Of co...
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