T2 Trainspotting is a movie directed by Danny Boyle in 2017 and based on the characters from the book Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, first published in 1993. The movie features Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Kelly MacDonald, Shirley Henderson, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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Book by Irvine Welsh
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Storyline
Twenty years after stealing £8,000 in drug money from his friends and making a new life in Amsterdam, 46-year old Mark Renton suffers a heart attack in a gym. Daniel Spud Murphy has returned to a cycle of heroin addiction after separating from his wife, Gail, and losing access to his teenage son, Fergus, whom he fathered shortly after Renton left.
Movie vs Book
Year
2017
Minutes
117
Movie Rate
7.20
Source: IMDb
Movie
T2 Trainspotting
Director: Danny Boyle
Country: UK
Year: 2017
Length: 1h57m
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Year
1993
Pages
430
Book Rate
8.12
S: Goodreads
Book
Trainspotting
Author: Irvine Welsh
Country: UK
First published in: 1993
Length: 430 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Mark Renton
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Danny Boyle
User polls & recommendations
“It’s such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.”
ARTHUR SLADE (Writer)
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