- 1:20 1:21 - 1:30 1:31 - 1:40 1:41 - 2:00 Trainspotting Trainspotting is a 1996 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. It stars Ewan McGregor (as Mark Renton), Ewen Bremner