Title: Trainspotting
Original Title: Trainspotting
Year: 1996
Info
- Country: UK
- Length: 94 Minutes (1 hour 34 min)
- Budget: $3,500,000
- Genre: Drama Crime
- Studios: Channel 4 Television Corporation Film4
- Distributor: Polygram Filmed Entertainment
- Age rating: 18 (Suitable only for adults)
Release Dates
- UK: February 23 1996
- United States: July 19 1996
Plot
Renton (Ewan McGregor) is the protagonist of 'Trainspotting'. He wants to give up his drug habit but this target is so difficult in the troubled suburbs of Edinburgh. His friends are Sean Connery enthusiast Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), guileless Spud (Ewen Bremner), psycho Begbie (Robert Carlyle) and the good-looking and toned Tommy (Kevin McKidd). Their objective is fight against drugs but their enemy is too strong.
'Trainspotting' is directed by Danny Boyle, who won Best Motion Picture Oscar with 'Slumdog Millionaire' and is also the director of 'Steve Jobs'. The script, written by John Hodge, is based on a novel by Irvine Welsh. The script of 'Trainspotting' suppose that John Hodge was nominated to Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published in the Oscars Awards.Awards
- 1997 Academy Awards (Oscars): 1 0
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Trivia
Ewen Bremner (Spud) had previously played Renton in a stage adaptation of the novel.
The sex scene between Ewan McGregor and Kelly Macdonald had to be trimmed for the American release by a few seconds, mainly because it appeared that Diane - a schoolgirl in the film - seemed to be enjoying it too much.
In 2009, Robert Carlyle, who played Begbie, told a BAFTA interviewer that he played Begbie as a closeted gay man whose outbursts of violence were due to his "fear of being outed". Irvine Welsh, who wrote the movie's source novel, confirmed that he wrote the Begbie of the book to have an ambiguous sexuality, and agreed with Carlyle's interpretation of the film's version of the character.
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