Trainspotting
“Choose life.”
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.
Genres
Drama, Crime
Studio
Figment Films
Language
en
Status
Released
How Trainspotting performed
Budget
$4.0M
Worldwide Gross
$72.0M
Gross Profit
$68.0M
Return
18.0× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$10M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Renton
Ewan McGregor
Renton
Spud
Ewen Bremner
Spud
Sick Boy
Jonny Lee Miller
Sick Boy
Tommy
Kevin McKidd
Tommy
Begbie
Robert Carlyle
Begbie
Diane
Kelly Macdonald
Diane
Swanney
Peter Mullan
Swanney
Renton's Father
James Cosmo
Renton's Father
Renton's Mother
Eileen Nicholas
Renton's Mother
Allison
Susan Vidler
Allison
Lizzy
Pauline Lynch
Lizzy
Gail
Shirley Henderson
Gail
If you liked Trainspotting
A Clockwork Orange
1971
Requiem for a Dream
2000
The Doors
1991
Payback
1999
Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007
Drugstore Cowboy
1989