a movie that dares to challenge the audience
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04/17/01
Trainspotting (1995)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:48
Rotten:6
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: A brutal, often times funny, other times terrifying portrayal of drug addiction in Edinburgh. Not for the faint of heart, but well worth viewing as a realistic and entertaining reminder of the horrors of drug use.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A kinetic, intimate look inside the subculture of heroin abuse, this acclaimed adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel follows the misadventures of Renton, a brash, twenty-something Edinburgh junkie,... [More]
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Director: Danny Boyle
Reviews for Trainspotting
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02/09/06
Top CriticA spirited, energetic, hilarious take on one of the least spirited, energetic, or hilarious topics of all: heroin addition
01/01/00
Trainspotting is one of the most effective anti-drug movies I've seen in a long time. Its depiction of heroin addiction is so raw and gritty that you walk away with the realization that heroin is a drug not to be messed with.
01/01/00
This is probably the most honest movie ever made about drug addiction.
01/01/00
No review available.
07/30/02
Instead of the social-realism approach taken by most movies dealing with drug subcultures, Trainspotting observes its subjects with a mordant eye -- an inclusive perspective...
01/01/00
An uncompromising, dark and hilarious film.
06/05/02
It would be pushing it to call Trainspotting a serious work of art or a major statement about anything, but as an edgy, artful piece of entertainment it beats any Hollywood release of the summer by miles.
01/01/00
The movie has been attacked as pro-drug and defended as anti-drug, but actually it is simply pragmatic. It knows that addiction leads to an unmanageable, exhausting, intensely uncomfortable daily routine, and it knows that only two things make it bearable
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's all attitude, and little substance. Still, its attitude is catchy at times, filled with humor and sparks of energy.
01/01/00
Una historia excepcionalmente narrada.
01/11/04
Trainspotting is a thoroughly shitty movie, which isn't to say it's a bad one.
09/01/09
[Has] a wild cinematic style that suggests a lust for the new, the different.
01/01/00
A pop culture sensation that drew notice to its own urgency and immediacy.
06/02/04
It has the power to shock, terrify and disgust audiences one moment and make them burst with laughter the next.
02/14/01
Its four main "anti-heroes" are such unsympathetic losers that it is difficult to care whether they live or die.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
It's strange that a film about a stupor-inducing drug should be the most--and maybe the only--exciting cultural export from Britain since the Sex Pistols.
01/01/00
Danny Boyle's Trainspotting is a blast of ice-cold water across a sweaty brow; it's a lively, vibrant and pulsatingly addictive movie.
07/01/04
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