• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1996-02-23
  • Runtime94 minutes
  • TaglineChoose life.
  • Revenue71,981,823$
  • GenreDrama, Crime
  • Production
    CompaniesFigment Films, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, Channel Four Films
  • Budget4,000,000$

Movie Overview

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 when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

Casts

Ewan McGregor

Ewen Bremner

Jonny Lee Miller

Kevin McKidd

Robert Carlyle

Kelly Macdonald

Peter Mullan

James Cosmo

Eileen Nicholas

Susan Vidler

Pauline Lynch

Shirley Henderson

Stuart McQuarrie

Irvine Welsh

Dale Winton

Keith Allen

Kevin Allen

Annie Louise Ross

Billy Riddoch

Fiona Bell

Vincent Friell

Hugh Ross

Victor Eadie

Kate Donnelly

Finlay Welsh

Eddie Nestor