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 when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

• DirectorDanny Boyle
• Release23 February 1996
• Genre
  Drama / Crime
• Duration1h 34m
• Budget$4,000,000
• Revenue$71,981,823
• Rate
  

  7.964
  9826 reviews
• Productions

  Figment Films, The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, Channel Four Films