Trainspotting - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  Renton's bare buttocks are briefly shown in one scene.

  A man and a woman have sex on TV for about 5 seconds. These are characters in the story who have made a sex tape of themselves.

  Most of the graphic sexual content takes place in one extended montage of multiple couples having sex.

  A short montage of different people having sex includes flashes of full frontal male and female nudity.

  A woman described as having "great tits" is unconscious on a couch after a drug overdose, showing a flash of bare breasts.

  A woman pulls the sheets off a man sleeping naked , his large penis is seen.

• Violence

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  Begbie destroys a hotel room in a fit of rage.

  Despite being somewhat infrequent, the violence 'Trainspotting' does have is very strong.

  Very bloody depiction of a woman screaming having a beer glass thrown on her head (aftermath shown on her face). Palms are slashed and people get hit by Begbie during his outbursts, with bloody results.

  A bar fight occurs in which numerous punches are throw, but this is brief.

  A man is cut in the hand by a knife, we briefly see the wound. This is very bloody.

• Profanity

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  Pervasive language

  175 uses of "fuck". 23 uses of "cunt". Pervasive use of "shit", and "piss".

• Intense Scenes

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  Trainspotting has many disgusting and uncomfortable scenes even though it is a dark comedy.

  The toilet scene is very disgusting and uncomfortable.

  Theres a scene near the end where Begbie glasses and beats a man and cuts Spuds hand it's brief but is serious.

  Scene of a dead baby in a cot who later appears in a drug withdrawal hallucination.

  The violence is brief, but it can be shocking.