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	Trainspotting - Rotten Tomatoes
		Trainspotting has its creative moments and sometimes it can be funny, but the viewer should be prepared for a downbeat experience and should expect to find himself some places he would never go of his own accord.
		Trainspotting is a singular sensation, a visionary knockout spiked with insight, wild invention and outrageous wit.
		It would be pushing it to call Trainspotting a serious work of art or a major statement about anything, but as an edgy, artful piece of entertainment it beats any Hollywood release of the summer by miles.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/trainspotting (986 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Trainspotting at Epinions.com
		Trainspotting will not paint a pretty picture, but it will addict you to its story and the characters will forever be etched in your mind.
		Trainspotting is the weirdest movie on the planet to be made within the last few years (older weird movies include Fahrenheit 451 and Blue Velvet).
		The only movie that slightly could be related to it (because it is also based on a book about addiction and then made into a movie) is Leaving Las Vegas, but Leaving was too dark to really be compared to Trainspotting at all so I am at a loss.
	www.epinions.com /content_20691979908 (1109 words)

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		As rude and scatalogical as Trainspotting often is, it represents a leap in maturity for Boyle and his scripter John Hodge, who broke through in 1994 with the nasty Hitchcockian doodle Shallow Grave.
		Trainspotting is lighter and more compassionate; among its deeper merits is that it proves a movie doesn't have to be mean to be fresh.
		Trainspotting, the title, refers to a meaningless activity meant to lend the illusion of structure to an aimless existence.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/trainspotting.html (447 words)

	Movie Review - Trainspotting
		The movie is set in Scotland, and it’s wry mix of humor, drama, and mayhem is a cinematic house of mirrors.
		The movie is an adaptation of the stellar novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh, and it misses nary a beat from the book.
		Trainspotting is a very real depiction of heroin addiction, and it’s also an excellent depiction of an incredibly well made movie.
	www.geocities.com /jbedwell0/MovReviewTrainspotting.html (688 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These excuses for human beings spend their lives committing petty crimes, conniving ways to stay unemployed and on the dole, lying to their parents about their drug usage, sucking their friends down into the toilet with 'em and spending the night in the local discos looking for a place to park it.
		What little story I will tell you is this: Renton is the only one who tries to make the journey back to "normalcy," not necessarily because he really in his heart wants to; but because his parents lock him in a room and force him to go cold turkey.
		Though not the most effective sequence in the movie, running voice-over commentary keeps you up to date on everything that is going through the Renton's head.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive/trainspotting.html (581 words)

	Trainspotting (movie)
		Trainspotting is a 1996 fl comedy film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh about a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh and their passage through life.
		The movie's screenplay was adapted from Welsh's novel by John Hodge.
		Interestingly, the screenplay does not contain any overt references to the non-drug-related hobby of train spotting, although the trailer contained a sequence involving the lead characters at a railway station that does not appear in the film.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Trainspotting_%28movie%29 (234 words)

	Trainspotting movie review
		The movie is about five childhood friends, four of whom are (or end up becoming) heroin addicts.
		In the movie, he is the only person who seems to have any depth in his character.
		That might perhaps be the movie's major flaw---it addresses too many issues through its use of clever symbolism, from neglect of children to the nature of Scotland's position in the global economy.
	www.ram.org /ramblings/movies/trainspotting.html (342 words)

	Trainspotting Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		While most films either glamorize (Pulp Fiction) or demonize (Panic in Needle Park) narcotics, Trainspotting is among a handful of films that honestly show drugs for what they are: a short-term cure for depression which can lead to a lifetime of misery.
		In Trainspotting's haunting climactic scene, perfectly timed to the eerie beats of Underworld's "Born Slippy," Renton takes the money and glances over the faces of his "so-called mates," realizing they're not friends at all (with the exception of Spud, whom he leaves some dosh), just a few lowlives bound to him by memories.
		While many '90s movies like Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers only offered stylistic nihilism and smart-aleck dialogue to soothe slackers' cynicism, Trainspotting delivered a powerful message of hope that actually got through to millions of aimless twenty-somethings.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=12076&buy=closed (2065 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Trainspotting \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		Unflinching in its portrayal of young heroin users, "Trainspotting" is almost impossible to turn away from - albeit in the same way that car headlights are irresistible to wildlife.
		The movie, which loosely adapts Irvine Welsh's bitterly comedic novel, follows Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young Scottish heroin addict.
		"Trainspotting" is rated R but really puts that rating to the test with its ample non-stop profanity, drug use, graphic sex, nudity, violence and vulgarity.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,1878,00.html (571 words)

	Trainspotting - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		Though "Trainspotting's" style is all cheeky glibness, its subject matter is raw and raunchy, including AIDS, overdoses and unprovoked violence as well as obscene situations described in unprintable language.
		The first half of "Trainspotting" is episodic, as these ultimate rude boys and their acquaintances (including a scuzzy dealer named Mikey Forrester, played by author Welsh) are introduced and placed in their drug-obsessed element.
		Welsh chose "Trainspotting" as the title for his novel to emphasize that heroin use is as futile an activity as writing down numbers of locomotives, and by the time this knowing film finishes, the aptness of that choice will not be in doubt.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-movie960719-5,0,6595973.story (916 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: 'Trainspotting': Junk Culture
		The idea that "Trainspotting" is in the vanguard of heroin chic is a notion that Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge find nauseating.
		Before they made "Trainspotting" together, Boyle, 39, and Hodge, 31, collaborated with producer Andrew MacDonald on "Shallow Grave," last year's art house hit about the unraveling relationship between three roommates who conspire to bury the corpse of mate No. 4 so that they can keep his cash-filled suitcase.
		Certainly, if "Trainspotting" was a product of Hollywood, it would not have included the film's soon-to-be-legendary toilet scene, which rivals Quentin Tarantino's ear-cutting horror in "Reservoir Dogs" as one of the grossest-ever movie moments.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/ftrainspotting.htm (2357 words)

	Amazon.com: Trainspotting: DVD: Ewan McGregor,Ewen Bremner,Jonny Lee Miller,Kevin McKidd,Robert Carlyle,Kelly ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		"Trainspotting" is a movie based on a book about the complexities of heroin addiction in 1990s Edinburgh, but neither the book or the film is any sort of morality play.
		So to me the title "Trainspotting" was a sardonic reminder of the monotonous, meaningless "normal" life that the guys were rebelling against and trying to escape from - unwisely, but desperately - in their drug usage.
	www.amazon.com /Trainspotting-Ewan-McGregor/dp/6304806442 (2247 words)

	Welcome to CampusNut.com -- Movie Reviews
		It’s the kind of movie conservatives tend to blame for the decline of civilization.
		If the movie has a flaw—if it can even be called a flaw—it is that the Scottish brogue in which everyone speaks is so goddamn thick that you need subtitles.
		This movie shows the hell that is heroin, and makes an argument against drug use, but it also shows why it is that people do drugs too—it shows the joy, however destructive, that can be found in drugs, which I think may make many people feel uncomfortable.
	www.campusnut.com /movie.cfm?article_id=228 (518 words)

	ChatTimes Movie Reviews: "Trainspotting" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Irvine Welsh's meandering novel "Trainspotting" is a sensation in Britain, and so is its rather more orderly film version by Danny Boyle and John Hodge.
		That is high praise for a movie that concerns itself with rock-bottom drug addiction among some of the scummiest lowlifes ever to befoul the planet.
		But lovely art is often crafted from the ugliest of subject matter, and "Trainspotting" not only studies its wretched subjects with compassion but also has the sense to judge them severely.
	www.timesfreepress.com /cityscape/diversions/filmfinder/trainspotting.html (433 words)

	'TRAINSPOTTING' NEEDS A FIX / But darkly comic tone of heroin-addiction film sets it apart
		Drug scenes are filmed to convey the sense of a drug rush, in a style not to be con fused with the psychedelic approach taken by filmmakers of the '60s.
		The movie captures some of the irony of heroin, that the pursuit of a self-contained nirvana leads only to the loneliness of the physically sick.
		The first hour of ``Trainspotting'' is funny and energetic, with a modern rock soundtrack pushing the energy and underscoring nearly every scene.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/07/26/DD40142.DTL (906 words)

	Fiction into film, or bringing Welsh to a Boyle Literature Film Quarterly - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Trainspotting was directed by Danny Boyle, from a screenplay by John Hodge, who adapted Irvine Welsh's novel of the same title published in 1993.
		Let there be no mistake, however: the exhilarating comedy of Trainspotting has its dark, even horrifying side as well as its deeper meaning, by contrast with which the youthful rebellion of the Beatles and their movies seems tame and inconsequential indeed.
		The movie of Trainspotting, as you can well guess, economically gives us only Renton's first-person narration in an intermittent voiceover that is circumscribed by the natural omniscience of film form.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_199701/ai_n8755206 (542 words)

	Trainspotting Movie Review
		TRAINSPOTTING, which is based on Irvine Welsh's cult novel and is directed by SHALLOW GRAVE helmsman Danny Boyle, became a smash hit in the UK during its run there.
		Miramax, hoping for a similar reaction on this side of the Atlantic, has been shouting from the rooftops, using big, splashy print ads and chaotic TV and theatrical spots to lure in their target audience.
		TRAINSPOTTING is careful not to present a one-sided view of drug use.
	www.killermovies.com /t/trainspotting/reviews/3ac.html (741 words)

	Trainspotting
		The story simply follows the daily lives of a small group of young Scots in Edinburgh who have one thing in common, their shared loved for one of the world's most dangerous drugs.
		The imagery that director Danny Boyle uses to convey the sense of dread and hopelessness surrounding Renton's prolonged heroin abuse is amazingly realistic.
		Trainspotting was based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, who has a bit part in the film as a drug connection.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/Trainspotting.htm (871 words)

	Trainspotting movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		One of the true pleasures of going to movies is the chance of seeing something - an image, that will stay with you for a very long time.
		One of the things the movie seems to understand so well is the relationships between addicts themselves.
		As our eyes encompass the screen, we are appalled at the way these characters live, and at the same time, we start to gain an understanding of how they have become comfortable living the way they do.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/t/trainspotting.htm (703 words)

	Trainspotting Movie Review
		Its unique structure, built around metaphor and over-the-top imagery, will make the film inaccessible to most audiences, as if the thick Scottish accents that make most of the dialogue indecipherable don't already.
		Making an independent movie about drug addiction isn't the easiest thing in the world.
		I could talk about the bothersome aspects of Trainspotting: an annoying techno soundtrack, a dragging middle section, and rapid-fire, heavily-accented dialogue that went in my ears and never quite reached my brain.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/trainspotting (473 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		Though the movie can't be called nihilistic--every style grows out of something, even if it's only principles of organization and energy, and the movie does have a moral point of view, even if it wears it lightly--it doesn't make much of a statement about heroin addiction.
		I don't have much idea what the play Trainspotting is like, but there's no question that the movie's agenda is light-years away from that of The Connection; it may brush past some of the same issues, but it doesn't begin to address them.
		If the movie is trying to say something about the way certain people live--and I suppose in a half-assed way it is--it doesn't even have the integrity to preserve its hero's lack of integrity through the end of the final credits.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/0896/08026.html (1101 words)

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	Trainspotting Movie at Movie-Source.com - Movie Review and/or Movie Preview
		Trainspotting came out six years, and despite becoming a cult classic, it was not until 2002 that I finally saw this comedy-drama starring Ewan McGregor.
		I think for you to truely enjoy this movie you have to have either lived in the UK or atleast visited there a few times and understand the culture.
		I wouldnt say this movie is a comedy-drama, I mean theres a few humorous parts in it to soften the seriousness of the whole sittuation.
	www.movie-source.com /movie_page.asp?movieID=1204 (573 words)

	Kinnopio's Movie Reviews - Trainspotting
		So halfway through the movie, Rents decides he's going to clean his act up, and although he's initially unsuccessful, he grabs the bull by the horns and does a fairly good job at not messing up.
		The majority of the movie focuses on this movement, and so of course, attention is paid to the effect that Rents' decisions have on his friends and family.
		A comment from a friend who saw the movie was that you'd have to be on drugs yourself to truly enjoy it; whatever the case, be prepared for something different.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/1996/trainspotting.htm (451 words)

	Trainspotting (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		True, it does show this downside in a stylish and funny way but there is no question that the film is promoting drug use in any sense.
		Too often I see films that are style over substance; Trainspotting gets it just perfect, stylish but not at the expense of dialogue, character or film.
		This is the most gratuitously vulgar, superficial piece of pop culture
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0117951 (696 words)

	SALON: Trainspotting
		he "Trainspotting" machine, which started rolling as a cult novel in Scotland's slums (passed hand-to-hand at outlawed raves) and gathered steam as a controversial West End play, is now in full locomotion, a wildly successful movie in Europe with raging fires of hype being stoked for its arrival on our shores.
		It remains to be seen which will be louder: the clucking tongues of the Christian Coalition, outraged by "Trainspotting's" drug-saturated subject matter, foul language and generally sociopathic tendencies, or the cheers of disenfranchised youth.
		In movies, historical epics like "Braveheart" and "Rob Roy" have further fueled seditious talk, and Boyle is a red-hot director.
	www.salon.com /weekly/movies3960715.html (1155 words)

	moviefans.de !!! Trainspotting...
		The challenge for those actors--and who knows how their careers will map out--will be to come back to characters that they've played and then to play them with twenty years of your own experience laid on top of them.
		Boyle was a bit enigmatic about the status of his relationship with his Trainspotting star Ewan McGregor after the actor spoke out about being replaced by Leonardo DiCaprio for Boyle's fourth film The Beach, but he said that it was pleasant and thought that it would be okay.
		"Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh was talking at the Edinburgh Book Festival about the novel that he's in the middle of writing entitled "Porno" and confirmed its a follow-up to that famous novel of Scottish drug addicts of his - "Trainspotting".
	www.moviefans.de /a-z/t/trainspotting (1680 words)

	Trainspotting - Movie Rental Review
		Parents need to know that this movie is, at its core, the story of a group of friends held together largely by their shared addiction to heroin.
		Tracking the exploits of a group of friends in Edinburgh, Scotland, the story is related by main character Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) by way of stylistic voiceover narration that keeps the action-packed film imbued with a sense of constant motion.
		In the final third, the focus shifts to the interpersonal politics amongst Renton and his friends as they attempt to earn a sizeable amount of money through a risky heroin deal, showing how even when the heroin isn't running Renton's life through addiction, his friends function as a negative drain on him.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /movie-reviews/Trainspotting.html (624 words)

	Trainspotting Trailer, Reviews and Schedule for Trainspotting \| TVGuide.com
		Brought to you by the writer-producer-director team that made their debut with SHALLOW GRAVE, TRAINSPOTTING is a rambling chronicle of high times in low company -- DRUGSTORE COWBOY goes to Edinburgh.
		By turns cheeky, surreal, exhilarating and stomach-churning, it follows assorted days in the lives of mangy Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and the scabby crew of junkies, deadbeats, thieves, liars...
		Trainspotting Movie Review, Pictures, Cast, News and More at Starpulse.com.
	www.tvguide.com /movies/trainspotting/131436 (229 words)

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