Choose life.
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.
Directed byDanny Boyle
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- February 23, 1996
- Budget
- $4,000,000
- Revenue
- $71,981,823
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Cast & crew
Ewan McGregor
Renton
Ewen Bremner
Spud
Jonny Lee Miller
Sick Boy
Kevin McKidd
Tommy
Robert Carlyle
Begbie
Kelly Macdonald
Diane
Peter Mullan
Swanney
James Cosmo
Renton's Father
Eileen Nicholas
Renton's Mother
Susan Vidler
Allison
- Directed by
- Danny Boyle
- Written by
- John Hodge
- Produced by
- Andrew Macdonald
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