
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.
Cast

Ewan McGregor
Mark "Rent Boy" Renton

Ewen Bremner
Daniel "Spud" Murphy

Jonny Lee Miller
Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson

Robert Carlyle
Francis "Franco" Begbie

Kelly Macdonald
Diane Coulston

Kevin McKidd
Thomas "Tommy" MacKenzie

Peter Mullan
Swanney "Mother Superior"

James Cosmo
Mr. Renton

Eileen Nicholas
Mrs. Renton
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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