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Trainspotting

1996

Danny Boyle

Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner ...

8.1

137,684

Drama Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), an underdog from Edinburgh, and his pals are addicted to heroin. Drugs provide everything that their lives lack but hobble their prospects. Renton will try to get clean, but the influence of his friends and the allure of the drugs are too strong.

	Media	Author	Review
		Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"A cocktail of scuzzy charm, nerve and despair that seduces and repulses"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"It would be hard to imagine a movie about drugs, depravity, and all-around bad behavior more electrifying than Trainspotting"
		Derek Elley Variety	"Scabrous, brutal and hip, Trainspotting is a Clockwork Orange for the '90s"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The stylish irreverence of "Trainspotting" mimics that drug high and delivers its own potent kick"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It holds up terrifically well. This movie was the first, maybe the only successful 90s British attempt at answering films like 'Goodfellas' or 'Pulp Fiction' (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It uses a colorful vocabulary, it contains a lot of energy, it elevates its miserable heroes to the status of icons (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Rupert Hawksley Telegraph	"Supported by five effortlessly assured central performances, it is cool without ever having to try, funny but deeply tragic, alluring but faintly terrifying (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Trainspotting' is a singular sensation, a visionary knockout spiked with insight, wild invention and outrageous wit (...) 90 minutes of raw power"
		Neil Jeffries Empire	"An unprecedented and unrivalled piece of entertainment (...) This film does not glorify drugs it glorifies film (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"A fantastically alive piece of filmmaking, a series of roaring, provocative, outrageous highs (...) You're trapped yourself between a bellylaugh and a scream"

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