After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.
- Director
- Writers
- John Hodge
- Irvine Welsh(based on the books Porno and Trainspotting by)
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- Director
- Writers
- John Hodge
- Irvine Welsh(based on the books Porno and Trainspotting by)
- Stars
- Awards
- 6 wins & 8 nominations
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- Director
- Writers
- John Hodge
- Irvine Welsh(based on the books Porno and Trainspotting by)
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- All cast & crew
Storyline
- Taglines
- Face your past. Choose your future.
- Genre
- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for drug use, language throughout, strong sexual content, graphic nudity and some violence
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaJonny Lee Miller offered to shave his head to look older, but Danny Boyle insisted that Sick Boy retain his iconic blond hair.
- GoofsSpud and Renton both state that Renton left Spud £4,000 at the end of Trainspotting. "His share." If you go back and watch Trainspotting the money is in £2,000 bundles. Renton only leaves 1 bundle in the box at the airport.
- Quotes
Veronika: What's 'Choose life'?
Renton: What?
Veronika: 'Choose life'. Simon says it sometimes. He says "Choose life, Veronika!"
Renton: 'Choose life'. 'Choose life' was a well meaning slogan from a 1980's anti-drug campaign and we used to add things to it, so I might say for example, choose... designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes, cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South-Asian Firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand others ways to spew your bile across people you've never met. Choose updating your profile, tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do. Choose live-blogging, from your first wank 'til your last breath; human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. Choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who've had surgery. Choose screaming about abortion. Choose rape jokes, slut-shaming, revenge porn and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did, it was the Jews. Choose a zero-hour contract and a two-hour journey to work. And choose the same for your kids, only worse, and maybe tell yourself that it's better that they never happened. And then sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody's fucking kitchen. Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you'd done it all differently. Choose never learning from your own mistakes. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get, rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it. Choose disappointment and choose losing the ones you love, then as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone and there'll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. Choose your future, Veronika. Choose life.
- Crazy creditsThe initial final credits appear over modified scenes of tower blocks and other buildings being demolished. Once the cast credits appear, the background changes to amorphous, swirling, mainly black/ white/ grey shapes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Film '72: Episode #45.10 (2016)
- SoundtracksShotgun Mouthwash
Performed by High Contrast
Written by Lincoln Jordan Barrett
Courtesy of 3 Beat Productions Ltd / All Around The World
Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd
Published by 3Beat Music Limited
Administered By Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd
- calmalley
- Jan 27, 2017
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $18,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,402,004
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $170,575
- Mar 19, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $41,681,746
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1