Trainspotting / Channel Four Films presents ; a Figment film ; in association with the Noel Gay Motion Picture Company ; screenplay, John Hodge ; producer, Andrew Macdonald ; director, Danny Boyle.
Based on a novel by Irvine Welsh. Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. Wide screen (1.85:1). Special features: new 4K digital restoration of the uncut version of the film, supervised by director Danny Boyle; Audio commentary featuring Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, screenwriter John Hodge, and actor Ewan McGregor; Nine deleted scenes with commentary from the filmmakers; New interview with production designer Kave Quinn and costume designer Rachael Fleming; "Off the rails: the making of Trainspotting," a documentary featuring archival interviews and behind-the-scenes footage; Memories of Trainspotting," a documentary from 2008 featuring the filmmakers and actors McGregor, Kelly Macdonald, Ewen Bremner, and robert Carlyle; Reflections from soundtrack artists Iggy Pop, Jarvis Cocker, Bobby Gillespie, Damon Albarn, Leftfield, and Underworld; teaser trailer and theatrical trailer; Booklet containing essays by critic Graham Fuller and author Irvine Welsh and Welsh's glossary of terms from the novel. Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald.
Summary:
A jolt of adrenaline shot straight to the heart of 1990s British cinema, this darkly funny adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel was a breakthrough for director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge. With live-wire energy and stylistic verve, Trainspotting bounces across the life and times of Mark Renton, a Scottish heroin addict who, along with his misfit mates, gets high, gets in trouble, gets clean, and gets high again, all in a bid to outrun the banality of modern existence. Kinetically cut to an iconic soundtrack of techno, rock, and Britpop, this indie phenomenon chooses life in all its ugly, beautiful, terrifying exhilaration.
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