Trainspotting

• Danny Boyle
• 93 min
• United Kingdom, United States
• 1996
• Fiction

The story of a group of heroin-addicted small-time criminals from Scotland became a pop cultural phenomenon and catapulted Ewan McGregor to stardom.
Few films define a decade like Trainspotting defined the '90s. The year was 1996, Britpop was at its peak, and the term "Cool Britannia" was coined. Nothing was hipper than Britain, and a not insignificant part of that was due to Danny Boyle tackling Irvine Welsh's debut novel as if he were a British Tarantino. Despite the film's dark themes of severe heroin addiction, AIDS, and an extremely unhealthy lifestyle, it became a massive success. The attitude, pace, dark humor, and music (Born Slippy!) struck Anglophile chords worldwide, and at the center of it all was a 25-year-old Ewan McGregor – in the role of Renton – with his equally cheeky and irresistible smile.


- Andreas Degerhammar

• Adaption
• Brott
• Drama
• Humor
• Samhälle
• Social utsatthet
• Prisbelönt
• Retrospektiv