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 when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
Genres:
Drama, Crime
Release:
February 1996
Production:
Figment Films, Film4 Productions, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company
Cast:
Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Eileen Nicholas, Susan Vidler, Pauline Lynch, Shirley Henderson, Stuart McQuarrie, Irvine Welsh, Dale Winton, Keith Allen, Kevin Allen, Annie Louise Ross, Billy Riddoch, Fiona Bell, Vincent Friell, Hugh Ross, Victor Eadie, Kate Donnelly, Finlay Welsh, Eddie Nestor
Tags:
drug dealer, friendship, london, england, based on novel or book, scotland, heroin, drug addiction, anti hero, junkie, nightclub, cold turkey, dark comedy, edinburgh, scotland, modern society, hallucination, surrealism, stealing, drug rehabilitation, drug dealing, drugs, schoolgirl, recovering addict, illegal drugs, social realism, drug culture
