Small Faces
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Production
Genre
Budget
$3 500 000
Box office
$16 504 291
Director
Actors
Iain Robertson, Joseph McFadden, Steven Duffy, Laura Fraser, Garry Sweeney, Clare Higgins, Kevin McKidd, Mark McConnochie, John Murtagh, Debbie Welsh
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Billy MacKinnon, Gillies MacKinnon
Producer
Billy MacKinnon, Steve Clark-Hall, Mark Shivas, Eddie Dick, Andrea Calderwood
Camera operator
John de Borman
Composer
John E. Keane
Artist
Zoe MacLeod
Audition
Patrick Harkins
Editing
Scott Thomas
Whole Team (17)
Whole Team (17)
Short description
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a downward spiral after he accidentally shoots the leader of Bobby's gang. Lex's cockiness and immaturity unfortunately prevent him from understanding the effect his subsequent crimes will have on both himself, and on those around him.
What's left behind the scenes
- To play a drug addict, Ewan McGregor had to follow a diet that excluded all alcohol and dairy products. It took him two months to lose the weight.
- Sick Boy is obsessed with James Bond. The actor who played him, Jonny Lee Miller, is the grandson of Bernard Lee, who played the role of M in the Bond series until 1979.
- Renton reads a book about Hollywood star Montgomery Clift, who suffered from addictions to all kinds of drugs.
- The film is based on Irvine Welsh's debut novel, Trainspotting (1993).
- The final scene where Spud retrieves money from a locker is reminiscent of a similar scene in 'Once Upon a Time in America' (1983).
- Although the film is set in Edinburgh, most of the scenes were filmed in Glasgow.
- Australia recorded a peculiar record – 'Trainspotting' became the film most often stolen from video stores.
- Sick Boy is obsessed with James Bond. The actor who played him, Jonny Lee Miller, is the grandson of Bernard Lee, who played M in the Bond series until 1979.
- In America, the first 20 minutes of the film were dubbed because audiences could not understand the Scottish accent.
- The film is based on Irvin Welsh's debut novel "Trainspotting" (1993).
- The final scene, where Spud takes money from the locker, is reminiscent of a similar scene in 'Once Upon a Time in America' (1983).
- Irvine Welsh appeared in a small role as a drug dealer.
- The murals on the wall of the "Vulcan" club are similar to those on the walls of the "Korova Milk Bar" from Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971).
- The murals on the walls of the Vulcan club are similar to those in the Milk Bar from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971).
- Among the drawings, one can also spot Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster from Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976).
- Among the drawings, you can also spot Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" (1976).
- Originally, Irvine Welsh's book was adapted into a stage play. Renton was played by Ewen Bremner, who played Spud in the film.
- The store security guard at the beginning of the film is John Hodge, the film's screenwriter.
- The security guard in the shop at the beginning of the film is John Hodge, the screenwriter.
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