Begbie (Robert Carlyle) watching SuperCasio with a beer

First an opportunity……then a betrayal.

After twenty years much has changed but just as much remains the same.

Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home.

Simon (Jonny Lee Miller), Renton (Ewan McGregor) and Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova) drinking in Simon’s flat

Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) are waiting for him.

Simon (Jonny Lee Miller), Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and Spud (Ewen Bremner) in the great outdoors

Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.

Director Danny Boyle reunites the original cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle

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