Trainspotting

Directed by: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Peter Mullan

Danny Boyle’s adaptation of Irvin Walsh’s novel about a group of young heroin addicts in the 80s is lively, funny, and at times horrifying in equal measures. McGregor is Renton the savvy leader of a bunch of lads – Sick Boy, Spud, & Tommy in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh who tries to make a break for a better life in London. A picture of Thatcher’s Britain with a seminal thumping soundtrack.