Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
Ewan McGregor
as Renton
Ewen Bremner
as Spud
Jonny Lee Miller
as Sick Boy
Kevin McKidd
as Tommy
Robert Carlyle
as Begbie
Kelly Macdonald
as Diane
Peter Mullan
as Swanney
James Cosmo
as Renton's Father
Eileen Nicholas
as Renton's Mother
Susan Vidler
as Allison
Pauline Lynch
as Lizzy
Shirley Henderson
as Gail
