Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
Keywords:
Drug dealer
Friendship
London, england
Based on novel or book
Scotland
Heroin
Drug addiction
Anti hero
Junkie
Nightclub
Cold turkey
Dark comedy
Edinburgh, scotland
Modern society
Hallucination
Surrealism
Stealing
Drug rehabilitation
Drug dealing
Drugs
Schoolgirl
Recovering addict
Illegal drugs
Social realism
Drug culture
Complex
Movie tag line: "Choose life."
Character: Renton
Character: Spud
Character: Sick Boy
Character: Tommy
Character: Begbie