It's strange that a film about a stupor-inducing drug should be the most--and maybe the only--exciting cultural export from Britain since the Sex Pistols.
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Trainspotting (1995)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:48
Rotten:6
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: A brutal, often times funny, other times terrifying portrayal of drug addiction in Edinburgh. Not for the faint of heart, but well worth viewing as a realistic and entertaining reminder of the horrors of drug use.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A kinetic, intimate look inside the subculture of heroin abuse, this acclaimed adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel follows the misadventures of Renton, a brash, twenty-something Edinburgh junkie,... [More]
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Director: Danny Boyle
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Reviews for Trainspotting
It has the power to shock, terrify and disgust audiences one moment and make them burst with laughter the next.
02/14/01
Una historia excepcionalmente narrada.
01/11/04
a movie that dares to challenge the audience
04/17/01
This might not be the first movie to get inside the mind of an addict, but it's the only one that captures the life-consuming power of addiction in all its complexity.
01/01/00
Be mentally strong, for you might become psychologically vulnerable from the mind-altering Trainspotting experience.
01/01/00
A spirited, energetic, hilarious take on one of the least spirited, energetic, or hilarious topics of all: heroin addition
01/01/00
Hip, brutally honest and humane...
01/01/00
It's Trainspotting, and it's great.
01/01/00
Based on Irvine Welsh's novel, this visually rich, culturally allusive film focuses on a small group of friends who are frustrated, rebellious and full of passions.
01/01/00
This is probably the most honest movie ever made about drug addiction.
01/01/00
Trainspotting manages to be hip, happening, graphic, tragic, violent, cool, filthy, sick, and very funny, and the tragically hip arthouse crowd on this side of the ocean are going to eat it up.
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01/23/03
This isn't an examination of the Scottish drug culture from the outside looking in, it's one from the inside looking out.
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Top CriticThe film comes off as inventive and enlivening, even as it makes clear how destructive heroin is.
02/27/01
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11/07/02
For better or worse, sometimes strictly for the sake of shock value, the stylish irreverence of "Trainspotting" mimics that drug high and delivers its own potent kick.
01/01/00
Top Critic[Has] a wild cinematic style that suggests a lust for the new, the different.
01/01/00
A rarity: a highly anticipated film that exceeds - and confounds - expectations.
09/05/02
You stop cringing and start smiling, laughing even, and these kids, who seem like aliens at first, grow on you. They're weirdly likable.
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