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T2 Trainspotting

  • 20172017
  • RR
  • 1h 57m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
122K
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POPULARITY
2,954
390
  • Cast & crew
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Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, and Ewen Bremner in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal.
 
Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie.
Play trailer1:54
21 Videos
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  • Drama

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.

IMDb RATING
7.2/10
122K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,954
390
  • Director
    • Danny Boyle
  • Writers
    • John Hodge
    • Irvine Welsh(based on the books Porno and Trainspotting by)
  • Stars
    • Ewan McGregor
    • Ewen Bremner
    • Jonny Lee Miller
Top credits
  • Director
    • Danny Boyle
  • Writers
    • John Hodge
    • Irvine Welsh(based on the books Porno and Trainspotting by)
  • Stars
    • Ewan McGregor
    • Ewen Bremner
    • Jonny Lee Miller
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 320User reviews
    • 396Critic reviews
    • 67Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 8 nominations

    Videos21

    Legacy Trailer
    Trailer 1:54
    Legacy Trailer
    U.S. Trailer #2
    Trailer 2:15
    U.S. Trailer #2
    Trailer #1
    Trailer 1:56
    Trailer #1
    Teaser Trailer
    Trailer 0:51
    Teaser Trailer
    Ranting Renton
    Clip 0:40
    Ranting Renton
    Ranting Renton
    Clip 0:40
    Ranting Renton
    Sunshine Pub Reunion
    Clip 1:07
    Sunshine Pub Reunion
    Sunshine Pub Reunion
    Clip 1:07
    Sunshine Pub Reunion
    Parking Lot Rumble
    Clip 1:19
    Parking Lot Rumble
    Parking Lot Rumble
    Clip 1:19
    Parking Lot Rumble
    T2 Clip: Madam Veronika
    Clip 1:06
    T2 Clip: Madam Veronika
    "Renton's Return"
    Featurette 1:15
    "Renton's Return"

    Photos294

    Robert Carlyle in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
    Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
    Irvine Welsh in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
    Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
    Ewan McGregor and Ewen Bremner in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
    Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, and Ewen Bremner in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
    Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, and Anjela Nedyalkova in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
    Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
    Robert Carlyle in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
    Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
    Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller in T2 Trainspotting (2017)
    Ewen Bremner in T2 Trainspotting (2017)

    Top cast

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    Ewan McGregor
    Ewan McGregor
    • Rentonas Renton
    Ewen Bremner
    Ewen Bremner
    • Spudas Spud
    Jonny Lee Miller
    Jonny Lee Miller
    • Simonas Simon
    Robert Carlyle
    Robert Carlyle
    • Begbieas Begbie…
    Logan Gillies
    • Simon (aged 9)as Simon (aged 9)
    Ben Skelton
    • Renton (aged 9)as Renton (aged 9)
    Aiden Haggarty
    • Spud (aged 9)as Spud (aged 9)
    Daniel Smith
    • Begbie (aged 9)as Begbie (aged 9)
    Elijah Wolf
    Elijah Wolf
    • Tommy (aged 9)as Tommy (aged 9)
    Steven Robertson
    Steven Robertson
    • Stoddartas Stoddart
    John Kazek
    • Tom (Rehab Group)as Tom (Rehab Group)
    Shirley Henderson
    Shirley Henderson
    • Gailas Gail
    Charlie Hardie
    • Fergus (aged 9)as Fergus (aged 9)
    Scott Aitken
    • Farmeras Farmer
    Gordon Kennedy
    Gordon Kennedy
    • Tullochas Tulloch
    Anjela Nedyalkova
    Anjela Nedyalkova
    • Veronikaas Veronika
    Tereza Duskova
    Tereza Duskova
    • Tourism Girlas Tourism Girl
    Elek Kish
    • Dozoas Dozo
    • Director
      • Danny Boyle
    • Writers
      • John Hodge
      • Irvine Welsh(based on the books Porno and Trainspotting by)
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    Storyline

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    First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance. —Sony Pictures Entertainment
    • old friends reunited
    • sequel
    • drugs
    • female nudity
    • homecoming
    • 545 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • Face your past. Choose your future.
    • Genre
      • Drama
    • Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
      • Rated R for drug use, language throughout, strong sexual content, graphic nudity and some violence
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Jonny Lee Miller offered to shave his head to look older, but Danny Boyle insisted that Sick Boy retain his iconic blond hair.
    • Goofs
      Spud 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 credits
      The 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.
    • Connections
      Featured in Film '72: Episode #45.10 (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Shotgun 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

    User reviews320

    Review
    Top review
    9/10
    Masterful on its own merits, respectful to its predecessor.
    T2 is all you could hope a sequel can be. Independent and respectful to its predecessor while standing on its own merits as a great movie, art even, powerful maybe. 20 years on things have changed,mostly. It's funny,sad and mature above all else. Boyles directing is complemented with a great script and beautiful cinematography. On to the important aspects, the film plays cleverly With nostalgia without depending on it,giving the audience of the 1996 cult classic something to savor, while also standing independently as an entertaining and even inventive film. Performances are a solid as you'd expect, Robert Carlyle returns in a fantastic albeit expected performance as begbie. The film introduces the advancement in technology over the intervening years with inventive and clever special effects, however the original also boasted some amazing trick of the lens. Finally upon leaving the cinema one gets a feeling of bittersweet and sorrowful fulfillment, the characters we've come to know over the last 20 years hive us nearly two hours of nostalgia packed entertainment, yet one can't help but long for its energetic,frenetic and classic predecessor, no matter how good its sequel is, and it is.
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    • calmalley
    • Jan 27, 2017

    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 31, 2017 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
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    • Languages
      • English
      • Bulgarian
      • Scots
    • Also known as
      • Trainspotting 2
    • Filming locations
      • Sofia, Bulgaria
    • Production companies
      • Artbees
      • DNA Films
      • Decibel Films
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    Box office

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    • 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
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 57 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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