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  • 1999
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 1999
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 51 m

Summary A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. (Zeitgeist Films...

Directed By: Paul McGuigan

Written By: Irvine Welsh

  • 1999
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 1999
  • Unrated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 51 m
The Acid House
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55
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Summary A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. (Zeitgeist Films...

Directed By: Paul McGuigan

Written By: Irvine Welsh

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Stephen McCole

Boab (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

Maurice Roëves

God (segment "The Granton Star Cause"), Drunk (segment "A Soft Touch"), Priest (segment "The Acid House")

Garry Sweeney

Kev (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

Jenny McCrindle

Evelyn (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

Simon Weir

Tambo (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

Iain Andrew

Grant (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

Irvine Welsh

Parkie (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

Pat Stanton

Barman (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

Alex Howden

Boab Snr (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

Annie Louise Ross

Doreen (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

Dennis O'Connor

PC Cochrane (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

John Gardner

Sgt. Morrison (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

William Blair

Workmate ("The Granton Star Case"), Deck ("A Soft Touch")

Gary McCormack

Workmate (segment "The Granton Star Cause"), Larry (segment "A Soft Touch")

Malcolm Shields

Workmate (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

Stewart Preston

Rafferty (segment "The Granton Star Cause")

Kevin McKidd

Johnny (segment "A Soft Touch")

Michelle Gomez

Catriona (segment "A Soft Touch")

Tam Dean Burn

Alec (segment "A Soft Touch")

Scott Imrie

Pool Player (segment "A Soft Touch")

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Metascore
Mixed or average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
55
40% Positive
6 Reviews
53% Mixed
8 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
55
40% Positive
6 Reviews
53% Mixed
8 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review

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80
It's MTV meets Merchant-Ivory, at once manneristic, hallucinatory, and exhilarating.
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70
A virulent but thoroughly entertaining trilogy of tales about the besieged lower classes of Edinburgh, ripe with vulgarity, self-loathing, violence and economic disorder.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
63
There are flashes of excitement in this film, mostly from the verbal play and sulphurous humour of Welsh's perspective, but there's a lot that makes you wonder why you're sitting through it.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
60
There's so little leavening humor here, and so much physical and emotional violence visited upon the already abject, that the film seems as pointless as the wasted lives it purports to examine.
By Jessica Winter FULL REVIEW
58
It's not the direction that feels flaccid in this film. Surprisingly, it's the stories themselves, which provide a bit of a giggle but little else.
By Paula Nechak FULL REVIEW
40
A mess, albeit one with occasional flashes of brilliance.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
25
Three stories by the guy who wrote Trainspotting, banged and smashed into a film by Paul McGuigan with none of Trainspotting's charm and all its grotesquerie.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Picture Palace North, Umbrella Productions Limited
Release Date Aug 6, 1999
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Fantasporto
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Prix Italia
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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