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Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy drama film directed by Danny Boyle, with Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her film debut. It is written in English and Scots. Based on the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh and inspired by the stage production of the same name, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996. The film follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life. Themes in the film are drug addiction, and urban poverty and squalor in Edinburgh.
- Director
- Danny Boyle
- Writer
- John Hodge
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- Release date
- 1996 · Released
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Genres
- Drama · Crime · Independent · Buddy · Magic Realist
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Trainspotting – Neue Helden
- 日本語
- トレインスポッティング
- 한국어
- 트레인스포팅
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