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Trainspotting 93 minutes, UK (1995), 18
(5.0)
Rating: 5.0 Stars
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Trainspotting

The blackly comic tale of a motley crew of Edinburgh heroin addicts and Mark Renton's escape to (hopefully) a better life was the funniest, bleakest British film of the 1990s

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Trainspotting: Before its release, the second film from the Shallow Grave team had the chattering classes panicking about the glamorisation of drugs. They needn't have worried. This brutally honest and bitterly funny depiction of life on smack is a definite drugs turn-off.

Hitting the ground running, Trainspotting keeps the pace heady. The first half of the film is really a series of masterful vignettes...
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