Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Danny Boyle
- Writer
- John Hodge
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $4,000,000
Cast
Eileen Nicholas
Ewan McGregor
Ewen Bremner
James Cosmo
Jonny Lee Miller
Kelly Macdonald
Kevin McKidd
Peter Mullan
Robert Carlyle
Susan Vidler
Keywords
aggressive
anti hero
based on novel or book
cold turkey
dark comedy
drug addiction
drug culture
drug dealer
drug dealing
drug rehabilitation
drugs
edinburgh
scotland
friendship
hallucination
heroin
illegal drugs
irreverent
junkie
london
england
modern society
nightclub
provocative
recovering addict
schoolgirl
scotland
social realism
stealing
surrealism
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