T2 Trainspotting (2017)

Directed by

Danny Boyle

Genre

drama film, comedy drama, crime film, black comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 3,378 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Years after leaving Edinburgh, Mark Renton returns to face his old friends and the messes they've made. The film catches up with the original characters as they confront middle age, their past choices, and each other.

nostalgicdarkly comicbittersweetenergeticrawmelancholicvisceralrueful

What happens

T2 Trainspotting is a 2017 black comedy-drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by John Hodge. Set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland, it is based on characters created by Irvine Welsh in his 1993 novel Trainspotting and its 2002 follow-up Porno. A sequel to Boyle's 1996 film Trainspotting, T2 stars the original ensemble cast, including leads Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, and Robert Carlyle, with Shirley Henderson, James Cosmo, and Kelly Macdonald. The film features a new character, Veronika, played by Anjela Nedyalkova, and includes clips, music, and archive sound from the first film. T2 Trainspotting was released in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2017, and worldwide throughout February and March 2017 by Sony Pictures Releasing through its TriStar Pictures label. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, grossing $42.1 million against a production budget of $18 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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