Trainspotting

Trainspotting is a film about a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller). Their friends Tommy (Kevin McKidd) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) criticise heroin use; the former is an athletic person, and the latter a drunk. Tommy succumbs to heroin after his girlfriend leaves him. Renton and Spud are caught stealing from a department store. Spud is imprisoned, while Renton volunteers for a drug treatment programme. Since he goes back to heroin, his parents lock him up in a room. Free of his habit, Renton moves to London, gets a job, and begins to settle. He is not pleased when Begbie and Sick Boy join him. They learn of Tommy’s death, return to Scotland and find Spud, now out of jail and drug-free. They all decide to make some money in a drug deal. Their plan is successful, but while they celebrate Begbie attacks a man with a knife, and cuts Spud’s hand. Renton realises that these people, with the exception of Spud, are not his friends, and decides to start a new life – with the money from the drug deal.