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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: MCGREGOR,EWAN EAN: 0786936237658 Format: Anamorphic, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Miramax Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 01, 2004 Running Time: 94 minutes Sales Rank: 2424 Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: July 19, 1996
Product Description: A young heroin addict in Edinburgh tries to kick the habit but his junkie friends aren't making it easy for him. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: R Release Date: 22-AUG-2006 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: With its hallucinatory visions of crawling dead babies and a grungy plunge into the filthiest toilet in Scotland, you might not think Trainspotting could have been one of the best movies of 1996, but Danny Boyle's film about unrepentant heroin addicts in Edinburgh is all that and more. That doesn't make it everybody's cup of tea (so unsuspecting viewers beware), but the film's blend of hyperkinetic humor and real-life horror is constantly fascinating, and the entire cast (led by Ewan McGregor and Full Monty star Robert Carlyle) bursts off of the screen in a supernova of outrageous energy. Adapted by John Hodge from the acclaimed novel by Irving Welsh, the film was a phenomenal hit in England, Scotland, and (to a lesser extent) the U.S. For all of its comedic vitality and invigorating filmmaking, the movie is no ode to heroin, nor is it a straight-laced cautionary tale. Trainspotting is just a very honest and well-made film about the nature of addiction, and it doesn't pull any punches when it is time to show the alternating pleasure and pain of substance abuse. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - You definately want to stay off drugs after this movie!
WOW!!!! If you ever think about getting hooked on heroin watch this movie first!!! You will appreciated your (regular & boring) life so much after this movie that you definately don't want to get into drugs! I think that is is the BEST Drug Prevention movie ever made!!!!!!
Very harsh, very true, very good!!!!
Rating: - very good service
i was very pleased with this product, it arrived in a timely manner and as described!
Rating: - Way too many 5 star reviews here
There are 2 to 3 moments of humor in this film and 2 to 3 moments of brutal reality. Otherwise, it's far too disjointed and muddled to rate any higher than two stars. Basically shows the depressing and pathetic lives of severe heroin addicts and how difficult it is to quit using. Unless you've been living under a rock, you essentially know heroin is dangerous, addicting, and difficult to quit. No new material here folks. "Traffic" has nailed this plague far better.
Rating: - MY REVIEW
DVD was scratched and I was unable to watch the entire film, very angry, I would return except you can't send back open CDS/DVDS.
Rating: - "Tidy wee bit ay fanny.....likesay. Nae offence likes, pal."
"The ONE movie showing characters more skrewed-up then you will ever be....Loved Irvine Welsh's cameo. It's what to watch when yer 'goin off the rails on the crazy train'....ya ken, ye daft radge, ya?!"