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.

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

  8.0
  9912 reviews
• Productions

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