Product Description

Import Blu-Ray/Region A pressing. One of the most acclaimed and controversial films of 1996, directed by Danny Boyle. In this harrowing yet often comical look at Edinburgh, Scotland's growing drug culture, a group of friends find their lives slowly destroyed by heroin. Includes a pulse-pounding soundtrack featuring Elastica and Iggy Pop. Includes audio commentary, deleted scenes, trailers, retrospective, interviews, featurettes and more. Starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner and Kevin McKidd.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46223 in DVD
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Dubbed in: French

Features

• Format: AC-3, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Widescreen, Import
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle

Amazon.com
With its hallucinatory visions of crawling dead babies and a grungy plunge into the filthiest toilet in Scotland, you might not think Trainspotting could have been one of the best movies of 1996, but Danny Boyle's film about unrepentant heroin addicts in Edinburgh is all that and more. That doesn't make it everybody's cup of tea (so unsuspecting viewers beware), but the film's blend of hyperkinetic humor and real-life horror is constantly fascinating, and the entire cast (led by Ewan McGregor and Full Monty star Robert Carlyle) bursts off of the screen in a supernova of outrageous energy. Adapted by John Hodge from the acclaimed novel by Irving Welsh, the film was a phenomenal hit in England, Scotland, and (to a lesser extent) the U.S. For all of its comedic vitality and invigorating filmmaking, the movie is no ode to heroin, nor is it a straight-laced cautionary tale. Trainspotting is just a very honest and well-made film about the nature of addiction, and it doesn't pull any punches when it is time to show the alternating pleasure and pain of substance abuse. --Jeff Shannon