
Skagboys
Mark Renton has it all: he''s good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there''s no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher''s government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark''s life swings out of control a...
Mark Renton has it all: he''s good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there''s no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher''s government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark''s life swings out of control a...