Acid House (1998)

Original title

The Acid House

Directed by

Paul McGuigan

Genre

fantasy film, comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 136 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three separate stories set in Edinburgh follow characters dealing with bizarre and often disturbing situations. A drunken wedding guest has a strange encounter, a man dreams of a grotesque figure, and a pub patron faces the consequences of his actions.

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What happens

The Acid House is a 1998 British film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's short story collection The Acid House directed by Paul McGuigan. Welsh himself wrote the screenplay and appears as a minor character in the film. All three sections are independent, but are linked by the setting of Edinburgh and the reappearance of incidental characters, in particular Maurice Roëves, who appears variously as an inebriated wedding guest, a figure in a dream, and a pub patron. All three of his parts symbolise a human manifestation of God. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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