Trainspotting (1996)
Trainspotting is a book-based movie adapted from "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh. This Drama/Crime film is a direct adaptation, and its release date is August 9, 1996.
The Source Material
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Overview
It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter.…
About The Movie
Description
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.
Details
- Title
- Trainspotting
- Original Title
- Trainspotting
- Original Language
- EN
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- US Theatrical
- August 9, 1996 · Rated R
- US Limited Theatrical
- July 19, 1996 · Rated R