Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
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.
- drug dealer
- friendship
- london
- england
- drug abuse
- based on novel or book
- scotland
- heroin
- drug addiction
- anti hero
- junkie
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Robert Carlyle — Begbie
- Kelly Macdonald — Diane
- Peter Mullan — Swanney
- James Cosmo — Renton's Father
- Eileen Nicholas — Renton's Mother
- Susan Vidler — Allison
- Pauline Lynch — Lizzy
- Shirley Henderson — Gail
- Stuart McQuarrie — Gavin
- Irvine Welsh — Mikey Forrester
- Dale Winton — Game Show Host
- Directed
- Danny Boyle
- Written
- John Hodge
Production
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 · 10,632 ratings
- Studio
- Figment Films, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, DNA Films, Film4 Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1996 · You’re hereTrainspotting
Where it starts.
T2 Trainspotting
2017
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
