Face your past. Choose your future.
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
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Ewan McGregor Jonny Lee Miller Ewen Bremner Robert Carlyle Anjela Nedyalkova Kelly Macdonald Shirley Henderson Irvine Welsh James Cosmo Eileen Nicholas Karl Argue Simon Weir Pauline Turner Scot Greenan Gordon Kennedy Steven Robertson John Kazek Bradley Welsh Katie Leung Tom Urie Amy Manson Christopher Douglas James McElvar Connor McIndoe John Bell Michael Shaw Christopher Mullen Elijah Wolf Ben Skelton Kyle Fitzpatrick Tereza Duskova Pauline Lynch Svetla Yancheva Kevin McKidd Blair Flucker Adam James Johnston
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