Trainspotting (1996) Has a Lust for Life on Criterion

The Criterion Collection released Trainspotting to 4K UHD and Blu-ray on January 30, 2024. Danny Boyle directed film starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, and Jonny Lee Miller.

‘Trainspotting’ Criterion Synopsis

A jolt of adrenaline shot straight to the heart of 1990s British cinema, this darkly funny adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel was a major 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 (Ewan McGregor), 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 Brit-pop, this indie phenomenon chooses life in all its ugly, beautiful, terrifying exhilaration.

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