‘Trainspotting’ opens in Britain, Ireland 20 years ago today (Feb 23 1996)


Video: 'Trainspotting' trailer

(Friday, February 23, 1996)Trainspotting, a British black comedy crime drama film that follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh, Scotland, and their passage through life, opened today in Britain and Ireland.

Directed by Danny Boyle, the film starred Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald.