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Trainspotting
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Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh's cult novel about Edinburgh junkies was brought to the screen with a pre-Star Wars Ewan McGregor making heroin look just a little bit too cool, despite the vomit, needles, and dirty toilet bowls.

The film launched the career of Robert 'Full Monty' Carlyle (as psychotic drunk Begbie) and helped set an enduring trend for lads other than fascists and gay men to wear very short-cropped hair.

Musically, it also relaunched Lou Reed and Iggy Pop's UK careers and spawned cult dance hit Born Slippy.


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