For many, it wouldn't be until the duo's 1996 look at Scottish drug culture, Trainspotting ... he ends up dead in his room with a suitcase full of money. McGregor plays Alex, a budding young ...

Trainspotting was released in 1996, "supercharged with sulphurous humour and brutal recklessness", according to a Guardian review 20 years later which also said it was "maybe the only successful ...

(L-R) Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton and Robert Carlyle as Francis Begbie in "T2 Trainspotting." Robert Carlyle as Francis Begbie in "T2 Trainspotting." (L-R) Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton and Jonny ...

‘It’s more of a cause-and-effect historical novel about the 80s rather than just exploring a subculture, which Trainspotting did. You’ve had the hateful figures of Blair and Cameron to take ...

Twenty years on from Trainspotting’s cinema release ... They were blown away by the honesty in the room.” Another of those who attended the meetings in Glasgow’s East End was the film ...

And after an almost three-decade career, which runs from Trainspotting to Line of Duty ... change in the air when you have a ...

Deemed "unfilmable" and a "foolhardy" choice for a sophomore film from a team that had burst onto the scene just two years prior, Trainspotting defied expectations to become an instant classic.

In one of the most famous scenes in 1996's Trainspotting, his character, Renton, is forced to relieve himself in the "worst toilet in Scotland" — and then sift through his own waste to find his ...