Trainspotting (1995)
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle
Synopsis:
Dramatisation of the lifestyle choice taken by a group of heroin users in Edinburgh at the height of the consumer boom.
Review:
Welsh's novel posited a kind of low-rent hedonism as a response to social marginalisation, and Boyle exploits the cinematic possibilities of a world viewed through sardonic, drug-tinted spectacles. It proved to be his breakout film, and that of its lead actors, and was a phenomenal success at home and abroad, probably because it had an upbeat Ritchie-esque ending.
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle
Synopsis:
Dramatisation of the lifestyle choice taken by a group of heroin users in Edinburgh at the height of the consumer boom.
Review:
Welsh's novel posited a kind of low-rent hedonism as a response to social marginalisation, and Boyle exploits the cinematic possibilities of a world viewed through sardonic, drug-tinted spectacles. It proved to be his breakout film, and that of its lead actors, and was a phenomenal success at home and abroad, probably because it had an upbeat Ritchie-esque ending.
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle
Synopsis:
Dramatisation of the lifestyle choice taken by a group of heroin users in Edinburgh at the height of the consumer boom.
Review:
Welsh's novel posited a kind of low-rent hedonism as a response to social marginalisation, and Boyle exploits the cinematic possibilities of a world viewed through sardonic, drug-tinted spectacles. It proved to be his breakout film, and that of its lead actors, and was a phenomenal success at home and abroad, probably because it had an upbeat Ritchie-esque ending.