from Channel Four Films / PolyGram / Miramax
Directed by
Danny
Boyle
Starring
Ewan
McGregor (Mark "Rent-boy" Renton)
Ewen
Bremner (Daneil "Spud" Murphy)
Jonny
Lee Miller (Simon David "Sick Boy" Williamson)
Kevin
McKidd (Tommy)
Robert
Carlyle (Francis (Franco) Begbie)
Kelly
MacDonald (Diane)
Peter
Mullan (Swanney)
James Cosmo (Mr. Renton)
Eileen Nicholas (Mrs. Renton)
Susan Vidler (Allison)
Pauline Lynch (Lizzy)
Shirley Henderson (Gail)
Stuart McQuarrie (Gavin/US Tourist)
Irvine Welsh (Mikey)
Dale Winton (Game Show Host)
Keith Allen (Dealer)
Kevin Allen (Andreas)
Annie Louise Ross (Gail's Mother)
Billy Riddoch (Gail's Father)
Fiona Bell (Diane's Mother)
Vincent Friell (Diane's Father)
Hugh Ross (Man)
Victor Eadie (Man)
Kate Donnelly (Woman)
Finlay Welsh (Sheriff)
Eddie Nestor (Estate Agent)
Andrew Macdonald (Flat Buyer)
Written by
Irvine
Welsh (novel)
John Hodge
Music by
Johann
Sebastian Bach
Georges
Bizet
Rated 
(for graphic heroin use and resulting depravity, strong language,
sex, nudity and some violence) |
With its hallucinatory visions of crawling dead
babies and a grungy plunge into the filthiest toilet in Scotland,
you might not think Trainspotting could have been one of the
best movies of 1996, but Danny Boyle's film about unrepentant
heroin addicts in Edinburgh is all that and more. That doesn't
make it everybody's cup of tea (so unsuspecting viewers beware),
but the film's blend of hyperkinetic humor and real-life horror
is constantly fascinating, and the entire cast (led by Ewan McGregor
and Full Monty star Robert Carlyle) bursts off of the screen
in a supernova of outrageous energy. Adapted by John Hodge from
the acclaimed novel by Irving Welsh, the film was a phenomenal
hit in England, Scotland, and (to a lesser extent) the U.S. For
all of its comedic vitality and invigorating filmmaking, the
movie is no ode to heroin, nor is it a straight-laced cautionary
tale. Trainspotting is just a very honest and well-made film
about the nature of addiction, and it doesn't pull any punches
when it is time to show the alternating pleasure and pain of
substance abuse. --Jeff Shannon
Trainspotting
(VHS Tape)
Trainspotting
(DVD)
Trainspotting:
Music From The Motion Picture [CD]
Original Soundtrack
Trainspotting
#2: Music From The Motion Picture, Vol. #2 [CD]
Original Soundtrack
Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting
: A Screenplay
by John Hodge, Irvine Welsh
Other
Great Films from 1996
 Movie Posters 
More Trainspotting Posters
Ewan
McGregor: The Unauthorized Biography
by Billy Adams
Ewan
McGregor
by Brian Pendreigh
Lonely
Planet Edinburgh
by Tom Smallman
how
to stop time: heroin from A to Z
by Ann Marlowe
Acid
Plaid: New Scottish Writing
by Harry Ritchie
The
Acid House
by Irvine Welsh
|