Trainspotting (1996)

Directors:

Danny Boyle

Writers:

John Hodge

Actors:

Victor Eadie, Kate Donnelly, Hugh Ross, Dale Winton, Annie Louise Ross, Billy Riddoch

Synopsis:

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.
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Trainspotting (1996)

Think I watched this movie two-dozen times in my teenage years, and knew every word. A very skillful, slick adaptation of Welsh's novel--which isn't actually a linear story but a collection of loosely connected tales. Hats of to Boyle for that. Also, WICKED soundtrack.
smitty
April 12, 2013