Trainspotting

Resource Information

The work Trainspotting represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bedford Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Trainspotting

Statement of responsibility

a Channel 4 Films presents ; a Figment Film ; in association with Noel Gay Motion Picture Company ; screenplay, John Hodge ; producer, Andrew Macdonald ; director, Danny Boyle

Contributor

• McGregor, Ewan, 1971-
• Miller, Jonny Lee
• Welsh, Irvine
• Carlyle, Robert, 1961-
• Bremner, Ewen
• Boyle, Danny
• Hodge, John, 1964-
• Macdonald, Andrew, 1966-

Actor

• Miller, Jonny Lee
• Carlyle, Robert, 1961-
• Bremner, Ewen
• McGregor, Ewan, 1971-

Film director

• Boyle, Danny

Film producer

• Macdonald, Andrew, 1966-

Screenwriter

• Hodge, John, 1964-

Subject

• DVD-Video discs
• Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Drama
• Glasgow (Scotland)
• Heroin abuse -- Scotland | Edinburgh -- Drama
• Trainspotting
• Clockwork orange
• British films

Genre

• Drama
• British films
• DVD-Video discs

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng

Summary

Film centers on Mark Renton, "an on-off junkie who acts as a funnel to the surreal world of his four 'friends.' Like Alex in Kubrick's 1971 pic [Clockwork orange] (to which there's a brief homage), Mark regales the audience with his anti-middle-class values and idiosyncratic philosophy of life, finally achieving a liberation that's more a temporary escape than a real shift in perception."--Variety review, February 12, 1996

Member of

• Behind the needle
• Making of Trainspotting
• Trainspotting--outtakes
• Trainspotting--trailers
• Miramax collector's series

Cataloging source

CLU

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Costumes, Rachael Fleming; production designer, Kave Quinn; editor, Masahiro Hirakubo; director of photography, Brian Tufano; art direction, Tracey Gallacher; sound, Colin Nicolson, Brian Saunders, Ray Merrin, Mark Taylor; assistant director, David Gilchrist; casting, Gail Stevens, Andy Pryor; includes songs by Iggy Pop

Date time place

Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, but shot almost entirely in Glasgow, according to: Variety review, February 12, 1996

Dewey number

791.43/72

LC call number

PR6073.E47 T734 2004

PerformerNote

Ewan McGregor (Mark "Rents" Renton), Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle (Francis (Franco) Begbie). Ewen Bremner (Daneil "Spud" Murphy), Kevin McKidd (Tommy). Introducing Kelly MacDonald (Diane). Peter Mullan (Swanney); James Cosmo (Mr. Renton); Eileen Nicholas (Mrs. Renton); Susan Vidler (Allison); Pauline Lynch (Lizzy); Shirley Henderson (Gail); Stuart McQuarrie (Gavin/US tourist); Irvine Welsh (Mikey); Dale Winton (game show host); Keith Allen (dealer); Annie Louise Ross (Gail's mother); Billy Riddoch (Gail's father); Fiona Bell (Diane's mother); Vincent Friell (Diane's father); Hugh Ross, Victor Eadie (men); Kate Donnelly (woman); Finlay Welsh (sheriff); Eddie Nestor (estate agent); Andrew MacDonald (flat buyer)

Runtime

94

Series statement

Miramax collector's series

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action