Twenty years after stealing £16,000 in drug money from his three friends and making a new life in Amsterdam, 46-year old Mark Renton returns home to Edinburgh after having a heart attack in a gym. While he has been clean from heroin for 20 years, his life has not otherwise improved; his marriage has failed and he is about to lose his job. Daniel "Spud" Murphy has returned to heroin addiction after having lost everything including his wife, Gail, and visitation with his teenage son, Fergus, whom he fathered shortly after Renton left. Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson now abuses cocaine, runs a failing pub, and engages in blackmail and filming schemes with his Bulgarian dominatrix girlfriend, Veronika. Meanwhile, Francis "Franco" Begbie is serving a 25-year prison sentence after being arrested for the drug deal in '96 and a robbery, and viciously assaults his lawyer after being denied parole. Read more on Wikipedia.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Drama |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Produced By: | Bernard Bellew, Andrew Macdonald, Christian Colson, Danny Boyle |
Directed By: | Danny Boyle |
Written By: | Irvine Welsh, John Hodge |
Cast: | Irvine Welsh, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Paul Ellard, Elijah Wolf, John Kazek, Ewan McGregor, Andrew Kelly, Jonny Lee Miller, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Simon Weir, Gordon Kennedy, Karl Argue |
In Theaters: | Mar 17, 2017 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 57 minutes |
Production: | Artbees, DNA Films, Decibel Films |
Box Office: | $2,395,410 |