Trainspotting
Choose life.
Country
Production
Budget
$4 000 000
Revenue
$71 981 823
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Andrew Macdonald
Operator
Composer
Artist
Kave Quinn, Niki Longmuir
Audition
Gail Stevens, Andy Pryor
Editing
Masahiro Hirakubo
All team (82)
All team (82)
Short description
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 as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
What's left behind the scenes
- To play a person who is on drugs, Ewan McGregor had to follow a diet that excluded all alcohol and dairy products. It took him two months to lose weight.
- Sick Boy is obsessed with James Bond. The actor who played him, Jonny Lee Miller, is the grandson of Bernard Lee, who played M in the Bond series until 1979.
- Renton is reading a book about Hollywood star Montgomery Clift, who suffered from an addiction to all kinds of drugs.
- The film is based on Irvine Welsh's debut novel 'Trainspotting' (1993).
- Although the film is set in Edinburgh, most of the scenes were shot in Glasgow.
- Australia recorded a peculiar record – 'Trainspotting' became the film most often stolen from video stores.
- In America, the first 20 minutes of the film were dubbed because audiences couldn't understand the Scottish accent.
- The final scene where Spud retrieves money from the locker is reminiscent of a similar scene in 'Once Upon a Time in America' (1983).
- Irvine Welsh made a small appearance as a drug dealer.
- The murals on the wall of the 'Volkan' club are similar to those on the walls of the 'Milk Bar' from Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971).
- Among the drawings, you can also spot Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' (1976).
- Initially, Irvine Welsh's book was adapted into a stage play. Ewan Bremner played Renton in the play, and portrayed Spud in the film.
- The security guard in the store at the beginning of the film is John Hodge, the screenwriter.
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