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.

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

  7.96
  10180 reviews
• Productions

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