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Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle Director: Danny Boyle Rating: Features: Anamorphic, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 2 Running Time: 94 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Release Date: June 1, 2004 Theatrical Release Date: July 19, 1996 Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
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A young heroin addict in Edinburgh tries to kick the habit but his junkie friends aren't making it easy for him. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: R Release Date: 22-AUG-2006 Media Type: DVD
With its hallucinatory visions of crawling dead babies and a grungy plunge into the filthiest toilet in Scotland, you might not think Trainspotting could have been one of the best movies of 1996, but Danny Boyle's film about unrepentant heroin addicts in Edinburgh is all that and more. That doesn't make it everybody's cup of tea so unsuspecting viewers beware, but the film's blend of hyperkinetic humor and real-life horror is constantly fascinating, and the entire cast led by Ewan McGregor and Full Monty star Robert Carlyle bursts off of the screen in a supernova of outrageous energy. Adapted by John Hodge from the acclaimed novel by Irving Welsh, the film was a phenomenal hit in England, Scotland, and to a lesser extent the U.S. For all of its comedic vitality and invigorating filmmaking, the movie is no ode to heroin, nor is it a straight-laced cautionary tale. Trainspotting is just a very honest and well-made film about the nature of addiction, and it doesn't pull any punches when it is time to show the alternating pleasure and pain of substance abuse. --Jeff Shannon
