Trainspotting

1996 Directed by Danny Boyle

Choose life.

Mark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

Ewan McGregor Ewen Bremner Jonny Lee Miller Robert Carlyle Kelly Macdonald Kevin McKidd Peter Mullan James Cosmo Eileen Nicholas Susan Vidler Pauline Lynch Shirley Henderson Stuart McQuarrie Keith Allen Kevin Allen Irvine Welsh Eddie Nestor Annie Louise Ross Billy Riddoch Dale Winton Hugh Ross Victor Eadie Kate Donnelly

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Language

English

Alternative Titles

迷幻列车, 定位的火车, Trainspotting: Sin límites, Trainspotting - Din Viata Scapa Cine Poate, Trejnspoting, Trainspotting 1, Trainspotting: La vida en el abismo, 트레인스포팅

crime drama

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Popular reviews

Review by Steve G 🐝 ★★★★½ 236

Choose Letterboxd. Choose films. Choose downloading the app. Choose paying money for a membership just so you don’t have to see some fucker adding 500 films to their watchlist. Choose following a few thousand people and then never reading a fucking word they say. Choose writing “Read the full review on my website!” knowing full well no cunt is ever going to follow that link. Choose asking Sally Jane Black to watch Rogue Nation and then seeing her do a Chantal Akerman marathon instead. Choose mithering the cunts on Twitter that you can’t get your lists to work. Choose refreshing it seven dozen times in the evening because it’s fucking broke again. Choose getting death threats over your opinions on…
Review by Leticia Fernandes ★★★★ 3

ewan mcgregor: choose this choose that choose choose choose choose choose
me, indecisive as fuck: uuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Review by Larry ★★★★★ 9

The word "trainspotting" can mean alot of things.
It literally translates to the phyisical act of watching trains, whether it be for a hobby or for recreation.
It's also commonly used among junkies to signal the track marks it leaves on the arms of addicts.
In the context of Danny Boyle's masterpiece, the word means all of the above. The life of a heroin addict could be summed up as the act of watching trains. You are watching hundreds of lives pass you by as the train speeds past. There are people going many different places. There are people coming from heartbreaks and there are people heading towards a new life. The addict isn't a part of all this. He…
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★ 9

you know how you can smell certain movies? yeah, this one smells like cigarettes and feces.
Review by teddy ★★★★★ 1

ewan macgregor in a crop top saved cinema just saying
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★½ 5

there’s a character in the book of mormon who, after visiting uganda for the first time, declares that AFRICA IS NOTHING LIKE THE LION KING! similarly, after spending 90 minutes w this film, i have concluded that outlander may not be the most universal depiction of scotland
Review by suzanne by leonard cohen ★★★ 9

what the fuck was anyone saying
Review by kayla ★★★★½ 6

“1,000 years from now there will be no guys and no girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me.”
Review by maria ★★★★ 5

weel noo a'm feelin' an overwhelming urge tae clean mah toilet 'n' then masell
Review by sophie ★★★★★ 2

"wow, trainspotting has really changed my life. It's made me decide I'm never gonna do drugs" -me, a bitch who was never gonna do heroin anyway
Review by muriel ★★★★½ 3

ewan mcgregor wearing a crop top did more for the film industry than spielberg's entire filmography
Review by Jay ★★★★ 5

ye ever wanty just tie yer arm up nice and cosy and then just fucking get right inty the heroin and blow yersel up tae fuck

Recent reviews

Review by Trevor Estrada ★★★★

I don’t remember a word form this movie but I bet they were saying some cool shit
Review by maryam ★★★★★

why isn't kevin mckidd's hair blond anymore ????
Review by sarahmixie ★★★★

ewan. wears. a. crop. top. that’s the review
Review by harveyweedon ★★★½

A beautifully raw and provokative insight into the depressive cesspit that is heroin addiction, but not one I’d recommend watching mere hours after almost overdosing on MDMA.
Review by Benjamin Bourbonnais ★★★★★

Même si 1996 n'est pas si loin et que j'avais 6 ans. Je ne peux imaginer un monde ou ma vingtaine ce vie sans cellulaire.....
#Perche
Review by egekirim ★★★★

"Phew! I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978!"
neden bu kadar geç izlediğime anlam veremediğim bir film daha
Review by isabella ★★★★

damn. ewan my gregor is basically jesus. and him wearing a crop top confirmed that the man is jesus.
on a more serious, technical note: sick camerawork/all the trip/withdrawal scenes were filmed really well. also it felt like a breath of fresh air to see a movie that didn’t glorify drug use.
Review by connie_rose ★★★★★

i’m angry at ewan mcgregor because it should be illegal how amazing an actor he is.
Review by izahorby ★★★★½

I am a little disappointed in myself that today was the first time I watched this film. I really liked it a lot and I want to rewatch it , I would quite like to see it in the cinema . Maybe that will be a possibility one day. I really didn’t expect it to be the way it is; I thought it was going to be very gritty and harsh and difficult to watch but it was actually still very funny and light hearted whilst also being gritty and showcasing Scotland’s drug crisis in an honest way. Really interesting, but I wish I knew more about the time period bc I think it would have been even more enjoyable if I’d grown up in the era. Also really cool and random soundtrack. I was doing crochet while I watched this so didn’t focus completely.
Review by Owen Johnson ★★★★★

Why do I love the hallucination scene more and more every time
I need help
Review by olly bate ★★★★½

obi dong kenobis adventure through heroin, paedophilic relationships, and infant mortality
Review by anjy 🌻 ★★★★

“1,000 years from now there will be no guys and no girls, just wankers. sounds great to me.”

trainspotting invented gender fluidity 😃