Trainspotting (1996)
8.1/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 23, 1996

If one film stands for the era, it is this. Boyle and Hodge took Irvine Welsh's novel about Edinburgh heroin users and made something that moves like a music video without losing its bleakness. It took around £48 million against a budget of about £1.5 million, proof that a hard British subject…

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