Trainspotting: Book vs. Movie
Danny Boyle's 1996 film Trainspotting adapts Irvine Welsh's book. Ewan McGregor plays Mark Renton, a heroin user trying to escape the habits and friendships that keep pulling him back.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Irvine Welsh
- Year
- 1993
- Pages
- 348Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 12 hr 1 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Tam Dean Burn Burn
- Series
- Mark Renton series
Mark Renton and the people around him move between heroin, petty crime, unemployment, and attempts to get clean in Edinburgh. Their overlapping accounts expose friendships sustained by shared jokes and habits, then tested by illness, violence, and betrayal. Renton can see the damage in the life he is living, but leaving it means breaking with people who keep pulling him back.
- Director
- Danny Boyle
- Writer
- John Hodge
- Year
- 1996
- Runtime
- 1 hr 34 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd
- Genre
- buddy, Crime, Drama, independent, magic realist
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Mark Renton tries to give up heroin and escape the Edinburgh friends whose company keeps bringing him back to it. Withdrawal, disastrous nights out and sudden tragedy puncture the pleasure he finds in getting high. A move to London offers distance, but his old circle follows him with a drug deal that could finance a different life or destroy his chance of one.
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