User
Score
Overview
A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, and clean-cut athlete Tommy.
- Number of Movies: 2
- Revenue: $113,663,569
Featured Cast
-
Renton
-
Spud
-
Simon, Sick Boy
-
Tommy (archive footage), Tommy
-
Begbie, Begbie / Begbie's Father
-
Veronika
-
Gail
-
Diane
-
Swanney
-
Renton's Father
-
June
-
Renton's Mother, Renton's Mother (archive footage)
-
Frank Junior
-
Allison
Featured Crew
-
Directing
-
Writing
July 19, 1996
Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seemingly towards a psychotic, drug-fuelled self-destruction.
March 31, 2017
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.