![]() The following morning, Renton is horrified to learn that she is below the age of consent and lives with her parents, whom Renton initially assumes are her flatmates. He seduces a girl named Diane Coulston and they return to her apartment to have sex. ![]() At a nightclub, Renton notices that his cessation of heroin use has increased his libido. Growing tired of his reckless lifestyle, Renton attempts to wean himself off heroin with a bare room, foodstuffs and opium suppositories given by ill-reputed dealer Mikey Forrester he also suffers a bout of diarrhoea and has to relieve himself in "the worst toilet in Scotland". Renton's other friends, aggressive, alcoholic psychopath Francis "Franco" Begbie and footballer Tommy Mackenzie, who abstain from illegal drugs, warn him about his dangerous drug habit. Mark Renton, a 26-year-old unemployed heroin addict, lives with his parents in the Edinburgh ward of Leith and regularly partakes in drug use with his friends: treacherous, womanising James Bond fanatic Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson docile and slow-witted Daniel "Spud" Murphy and Swanney, "Mother Superior", their dealer. A sequel, T2 Trainspotting, was released in January 2017. A 2017 poll, which consisted of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine, ranked it the tenth best British film ever. In 2004, the film was voted the best Scottish film of all time in a general public poll. The film was ranked tenth by the British Film Institute (BFI) in its list of Top 100 British films of the 20th century. Trainspotting was released to critical acclaim, and is regarded by many critics as one of the best films of the 1990s. Beyond drug addiction, other themes in the film include an exploration of the urban poverty and squalor in Edinburgh. The Academy Award-nominated screenplay by John Hodge follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life. Based on the 1993 novel of the same title by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996. Trainspotting is a 1996 Scottish black comedy-drama film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her debut.
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