FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Trainspotting
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer90%as of 2022-11-29
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.4/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic83/100as of 2025-06-16
What it is
Trainspotting is a 1996 British independent black comedy drama film directed by Danny Boyle, with Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald in her film debut. It is written in English and Scots. Based on the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh and inspired by the stage production of the same name, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996.
At a glance
- Genres
- Crime / Drama
- Original language
- English
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