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Trainspotting
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for graphic heroin use and resulting depravity, strong language, sex, nudity and some violence
Starring
Ewan McGregor,
Ewen Bremner,
Jonny Lee Miller,
Kevin McKidd,
Robert Carlyle,
and
Kelly MacDonald
Renton (McGregor), a twenty-something junkie, is deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene. He must choose to clean up and get out, or continue following the allure of the drugs and the influence of friends.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Irvine Welsh (novel)
John Hodge
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Danny Boyle
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 24, 1998
Video: February 11, 1997
Theatrical: July 19, 1996
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| RUNNING TIME: |
94 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It would be hard to imagine a movie about drugs, depravity, and all-around bad behavior more electrifying than Trainspotting.

100
Film.com
Keith Simanton
Two of the fastest, most involving hours in recent film.

100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Heroin may be a downer, but Trainspotting definitely takes you up
a series of roaring, provocative, outrageous highs. [26 July 1996, Friday, p.C]
100
Film.com
Susan Rathke
Darkly humorous, intensely graphic.
100
San Francisco Examiner
Barry Walters
Extraordinary, entertaining cinema.

100
Film.com
Shannon Gee
Keeps you engaged in this story of a memorable anti-hero for our times.
100
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
The most original, daring, thrilling movie to be released this year, Trainspotting is one of those occasional, astonishing triumphs of risk and imagination that gets you excited about what smart people, pushing themselves and the medium, can accomplish in the movies.

100
Slate
Michael Wood
A desolate, fast, funny, scary film, and it takes more risks than any recent film.

90
Time
Richard Corliss
The film is about joy--in conniving and surviving, in connecting with audiences, in its own fizzy, jizzy style.

90
Variety
Derek Elley
Scabrous, brutal and hip, Trainspotting is a "Clockwork Orange" for the '90s.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Exuberant and pitiless, profane yet eloquent, flush with the ability to create laughter out of unspeakable situations, Trainspotting is a drop-dead look at a dead-end lifestyle that has all the strength of its considerable contradictions.

90
TNT RoughCut
Jason Puskar
Irresistibly bleak appeal.
89
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The on-target performances, along with the unceasing barrage of popular music and daring narrative gambles, combine to make Trainspotting one of the grand movie rushes of 1996.

88
USA Today
Mike Clark
A movie that rudely flings feces at the breakfast table isn't for everyone.

88
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
There's nothing new or unique about the story, but it is presented in a manner that reinforces its immediacy and impact.

88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
A little like speeding through the digestive tract of some voracious beast. There's bite, acid, digestive churning and an expulsive conclusion. If the metaphor seems unsavoury, well, wait until you see the film.

87
Mr. Showbiz
F. X. Feeney
It's a disturbing film in the best sense.

80
Film.com
John Hartl
Ewan McGregor in a raw, funny, star-making performance.
80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A must-see.

80
Film.com
Tom Keogh
A surprisingly vital film.
80
Newsweek
John Leland
Artfully ambivalent, Danny Boyle's film, twists with a junkie's logic. It does not preach; it wallows in the pain and, more daringly, in the pleasure.

80
Dallas Observer
Arnold Wayne Jones
Creates a sense of understanding that crystallizes the essence of the drug subculture with startling clarity.

80
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
The stylish irreverence of Trainspotting mimics that drug high and delivers its own potent kick.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Darkly comic tone of heroin-addiction film sets it apart

75
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
Isn't a noble story, or even a cautionary one: It just feels pretty painfully real.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It uses a colorful vocabulary, it contains a lot of energy, it elevates its miserable heroes to the status of icons (in their own eyes, that is).

70
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
Captures the way drug addiction gives structure and purpose to aimless lives, and evokes the breathtaking rapture of a fix. All this and a happy ending, too.

50
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
A new voyeurism has arisen in the last two decades or so, and Trainspotting caters to it--an addiction to addiction-watching. [August 19, 1996]
50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The story, such as it is, follows Renton's inconsistent attempts to kick his habit.


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