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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.

“Just as Boyle found inspiration for Shallow Grave in the Coen brothers’ ‘Blood Simple’, he drew on other films he admired when he made ‘Trainspotting’. Renton and Spud scarper from the store guards as the Beatles scarper from bobbies in ‘A Hard Day’s Night’. The narration by Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) in ‘Goodfellas’ inspired Renton’s. And the eclectic soundtrack of ‘Pulp Fiction’ presaged ‘Trainspotting’’s stew of hard rock, glam rock, synth pop, alternative, Brit-pop, ambient, electronic, techno, dance, rap, and opera. The songs are not window dressing but part of the film’s musculature.” ~ Graham Fuller, Criterion

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