Trainspotting

Mark Renton lives in Edinburgh with a group of friends caught in a cycle of heroin addiction, petty crime and self-destruction. He knows exactly what his lifestyle is doing to him and repeatedly decides to escape it, only to find himself pulled back by addiction, habit and friendships that are as destructive as they are difficult to abandon.
Surrounded by the hapless Spud, charismatic Sick Boy and violently unpredictable Begbie, Renton must decide whether there really is another life worth choosing. Propelled by black humor, frantic energy and one of the defining soundtracks of the 1990s, Danny Boyle's Trainspotting turns Irvine Welsh's novel into an uncompromising portrait of addiction, friendship, self-destruction and a generation looking at the respectable life society offers them and wondering whether they want it at all.