About

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.

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Directed by

Danny Boyle

Written by

John Hodge (Screenplay)
Irvine Welsh (Author)

Runtime

94 minutes

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Tagline

Choose life.

Cast

Keywords

london, england friendship nightclub based on novel or book dark comedy scotland drugs illegal drugs cult film heroin drug dealer stealing surrealism monologue drug addiction hallucination junkie edinburgh, scotland drug dealing modern society recovering addict cold turkey drug culture antihero drug rehabilitation

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Lists

#166 on IMDb top 250 IMDb

#555 on 1,000 greatest films They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?

#316 on Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time Empire

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Steven Jay Schneider

Awards

Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published John Hodge