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				Trainspotting (1996) | 
			 
				
			
			
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				Film rated 4.2 / 5 
				(Chick rating: 4.3 / 5) 
				(Guy rating: 4.1 / 5)
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		| A real shoot-em-up flick. | 
	 
	
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		| Many junkies; few trains. | 
	 
	
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		| Heats, shoots and leaves. | 
	 
	
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		| Renton scores, shoots, leaves. | 
	 
	
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		| Swimming with suppositories. | 
	 
	
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		| Central character is heroin. | 
	 
	
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		| Ewan 'Smackhead' McGregor. | 
	 
	
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		| Boyle's long tracking shots. | 
	 
	
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		| Hero-less gang seeks heroin. | 
	 
	
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		| Begbie tosses back stein. | 
	 
	
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		| Scottish junkies' Philosophy 101. | 
	 
	
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		| Smackhead gets hot schoolgirl. | 
	 
	
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		| Spud's girlfriend gets shit-faced. | 
	 
	
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		| Renton trampled by horse. | 
	 
	
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		| Ex-druggie tries Renton properties. | 
	 
	
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		| Renton's 'high' five friends | 
	 
	
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		| Bremner 'scores' for Scotland. | 
	 
	
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		| Renton shoots and scores. | 
	 
	
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		| Bremner's shitty Highland fling. | 
	 
	
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		| Kenobi knobs sexy schoolgirl. | 
	 
	
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		| Renton, Archie Gemmill score. | 
	 
	
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		| 'Its shite being Scottish!' | 
	 
	
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		| Renton makes life choices. | 
	 
	
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		| Renton's dreams, down toilet. | 
	 
	
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		| Renton's investment in vein. | 
	 
	
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		| Dope 'Boyled' in Edinburgh | 
	 
	
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		| Choose films. Choose quality. | 
	 
	
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		| Scottish losers' drug problems. | 
	 
	
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		| Alternately- 'Carry On Junkie'. | 
	 
	
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		| Train spottin', vein rottin'. | 
	 
	
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		| McGregor's a drug addict. | 
	 
	
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		| Scotland has bad toilets. | 
	 
	
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		| Scottish squatters' squeamish shooting. | 
	 
	
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		| Reformed druggies snatch loot. | 
	 
	
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		| Choose film, choose depression. | 
	 
	
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		| Renton chooses, Begbie loses. | 
	 
	
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		| Boys: football, girls: shopping. | 
	 
	
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		| Shit fit ruins breakfast. | 
	 
	
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		| McGregor's surreal toilet swim. | 
	 
	
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		| Scottish need looser jeans. | 
	 
	
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		| Renton snatches Begbie's cash. | 
	 
	
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		| Filthy, Scottish toilet tripping. | 
	 
	
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		| Former minors locate veins. | 
	 
	
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		| Scotland looks so depressing! | 
	 
	
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		| Scot junkie betrays mates. | 
	 
	
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		| Boyle's heroin addiction flick. | 
	 
	
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		| Scotland's (train)yards highly suspect. | 
	 
	
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		| Renton tries cold turkey. | 
	 
	
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		| Scots' suppository shit swim. | 
	 
	
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		| Toilet ballet, shitty breakfast. | 
	 
	
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		| Spud's interview enthusaism overflows. | 
	 
	
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		| Renton's Low-rent Hellholes. | 
	 
	
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		| Diarrhoea served at breakfast. | 
	 
	
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		| Drugged Scots call shots. | 
	 
	
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