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Categories: Disambiguation This article is about the hobby of train spotting, for other uses see Trainspotting. ... Trainspotting (1993) is the first novel by Irvine Welsh. ... Movie poster for Trainspotting Trainspotting is a 1996 black comedy film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh about a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh and their passage through life. ... The Trainspotting Soundtracks are two soundtrack albums released following the film version of Irvine Welshs novel. ...

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Movie Review - Trainspotting - Hollywood Bitchslap (747 words)
	Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting" is a blast of ice-cold water across a sweaty brow; it's a lively, vibrant and pulsatingly addictive movie, an experience not unlike a roller-coaster ride through some of the sickest, slimiest and heart-stoppingly shocking sub-levels of drug addiction.
	Trainspotting is brave and ballsy and frequently hilarious; it's dark, smart and uncompromising in a way that only the best films are.
	Trainspotting is as difficult to categorize as it is to dismiss.

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	As rude and scatalogical as Trainspotting often is, it represents a leap in maturity for Boyle and his scripter John Hodge, who broke through in 1994 with the nasty Hitchcockian doodle Shallow Grave.
	Trainspotting is lighter and more compassionate; among its deeper merits is that it proves a movie doesn't have to be mean to be fresh.
	Trainspotting, the title, refers to a meaningless activity meant to lend the illusion of structure to an aimless existence.

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