
directed by
Danny Boyle
featuring
Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald
Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life otherwise lacks. Renton's two best friends are also junkies: Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), a snappy dresser obsessed with James Bond, and Spud (Ewan Bremner), a guileless nerd who suggests Pee Wee Herman's debauched cousin. Renton and ...
BD0407
Oct 5, 2011
STARTLING, GOOD FILM. PERHAPS AHEAD OF TIME, BUT EXCITING TO WATCH.
Faded
Mar 14, 2008
This has to be by far the most hardcore gritty realization one couldn't even begin to fathom ....The dialogue, scene setting, music...you are there .you become...one with the characters.....you see yourself.