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Running time 93 minutes Country United Kingdom Language English Budget £1.5 million Box office $72 million (£48 million) Trainspotting is a 1996 British drama film directed by and starring,,,,, and in her acting debut. Based on the by, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996. The -nominated screenplay by follows a group of heroin in an area of and their passage through life. Beyond drug addiction, other themes in the film are exploration of the urban poverty and squalor in Edinburgh.

The film has been ranked 10th by the (BFI) in its list of. In 2004 the film was voted the best Scottish film of all time in a general public poll. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for magazine ranked it the 10th best British film ever. A,, was released in January 2017.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Plot [ ] -based, using cheeky-chappy, Mark Renton buys opium suppositories from dealer Mikey Forrester to help him quit. After his final hit, and a violent spell of caused by cessation of heroin, he locks himself in his flat to endure the period. Finding that his sex drive has returned, he leaves a club with a girl, Diane, and they have sex in her bedroom. In the morning, he realises that Diane is underage and that her 'flatmates' are her parents. Diane threatens to reveal the encounter if he ends the relationship. Renton and his friends, dull-witted but friendly Spud and Sick Boy, start using heroin again.

Their friend Tommy, a healthy athlete whose girlfriend has dumped him after a chain of events initiated by Renton, also begins using. Fellow addict Allison discovers that her infant daughter Dawn has died without the group noticing; all are distraught, especially Sick Boy, Dawn's father. Renton and Spud are arrested for shoplifting. Spud goes to prison for six months, but Renton avoids punishment by entering a, where he is given. Despite support from his family, Renton is desperate for a more substantial high and escapes to his drug dealer's flat. Labaik allahumma labaik full.

He nearly dies of an, and his dealer sends him to hospital in a taxicab. Renton's parents lock him in his childhood bedroom to force him through withdrawal. Renton has of Diane singing, his friends giving him advice, Dawn crawling on the ceiling, and a TV game show in which presenter asks Renton's parents questions about. At the insistence of his parents, Renton has an HIV/AIDS test; despite years of sharing syringes, Renton tests negative., he visits Tommy, who has succumbed to addiction and is now HIV positive. Renton moves to and takes a job as a property letting agent.