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Trainspotting (film)

Trainspotting
United Kingdom theatrical release poster
Directed byDanny Boyle
Screenplay byJohn Hodge
Based onTrainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
Produced byAndrew Macdonald
Starring
CinematographyBrian Tufano
Edited byMasahiro Hirakubo
Production
companies
Distributed byPolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Release date
  • 23 February 1996 (1996-02-23)
Running time
93 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget£1.5 million[3]
Box office$72 million[4]
(£48 million)

Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy-drama film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her film debut. Based on the 1993 novel of the same title by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996.[5]

The film follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life. Beyond drug addiction, other themes in the film include an exploration of the urban poverty and squalor in Edinburgh.[6]

Trainspotting was released to critical acclaim, and is regarded by many critics as one of the best films of the 1990s.[7][8][9] The film was ranked tenth by the British Film Institute (BFI) in its list of Top 100 British films of the 20th century. In 2004, the film was voted the best Scottish film of all time in a general public poll.[10] A 2017 poll, which consisted of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine, ranked it the tenth best British film ever.[11] A sequel, T2 Trainspotting, was released in January 2017.

  1. ^ "Trainspotting (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 15 December 1995. Archived from the original on 27 November 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Trainspotting (1996)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
  3. ^ Walker, Alexander (2005). Icons in the Fire: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everyone in the British Film Industry 1984–2000. Orion Books. p. 237. ISBN 978-0752864846.
  4. ^ Murray, Jonathan. "Trainspotting" (PDF). Dundee Contemporary Arts. Edinburgh College of Art. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  5. ^ Morace, Robert (1 September 2001). Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting: A Reader's Guide. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780826452375.
  6. ^ Street, Sarah (1997). "Genres in transition". British National Cinema. Routledge. p. 111. ISBN 0-415-06735-9. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016.
  7. ^ "The 100 Greatest Movies of the '90". Rolling Stone. 12 July 2017. Archived from the original on 10 September 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  8. ^ "The 50 Best Films of the 90s From Pulp Fiction to Groundhog Day". IndieWire. 14 July 2017. Archived from the original on 16 March 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  9. ^ Summerlad, Joe (22 June 2018). "Ten films that define the 1990s: From Forrest Gump to Titanic, Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction". The Independent. Archived from the original on 20 November 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Trainspotting wins best film poll". BBC News. 24 February 2004. Archived from the original on 7 December 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  11. ^ "The 100 best British films". Time Out. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2017.

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