Word: ewan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multitude of crimes; a boyish charm can sell anything; vitality overwhelms prim moral compunctions. All three apply to Trainspotting, the Scottish comedy-horror show made for a Scots-thrifty $2.5 million. The wit is in the film's dialogue; it exhilarates even as it horrifies. The charm pours from Ewan McGregor's star-making turn as Renton. And the verve--that's director Danny Boyle's triumph...
...must have been disorienting for Ewan McGregor when the actor went from the junkie rigors of Trainspotting directly into the pastoral comedy of Jane Austen's Emma. "On the first day of shooting," he recalls, "I was riding horses and wearing a top hat, tails and gloves. And I realized that three weeks before, I'd been lying on a floor in Scotland with a skinned head and needles and syringes all around. I wondered what I was doing. Yet I enjoyed...
...actor Bernard Lee--"M" in 11 Bond films. Producer Andrew MacDonald is the grandson of auteur Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes). And McGregor is the nephew of Denis Lawson, a deliciously droll, comic actor in Scottish movies (Local Hero) and West End musicals (Mr. Cinders). Young Ewan, the son of teachers, got the itch to act from Lawson. "I was brought up in Crieff, a small, conservative town," McGregor says, "and he had long hair, beads and a furry waistcoat. I aspired to be as different as he seemed...
directed by Danny Boyle starring Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor Gramercy Pictures...
...three main characters are roommates who could be the three Musketeers, except that their motto is simply, "All for one." David (Christopher Eccleston), a bland accountant, Alex (Ewan McGregor), a cocky journalist, and Juliet (Kerry Fox), a frosty doctor, all live together in a flat in urban Scotland...