Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seemingly towards a psychotic, drug-fuelled self-destruction.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
GB
Genres:
Drama, Crime
Release:
February 1996
Production:
Figment Films, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, Channel Four Films, DNA Films
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
