Trainspotting poster
Director Danny Boyle
Screenplay John Hodge

Trainspotting

Tagline: Choose life.

Release Date: 1996-02-23

Duration: 94 minutes

Synopsis

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 when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

Casting

  • Ewan McGregor
    Renton
  • Robert Carlyle
    Begbie
  • Kelly Macdonald
    Diane
  • Jonny Lee Miller
    Sick Boy
  • Shirley Henderson
    Gail
  • James Cosmo
    Renton's Father
  • Kevin McKidd
    Tommy
  • Ewen Bremner
    Spud
  • Peter Mullan
    Swanney
  • Susan Vidler
    Allison