Movie Review

The Acid House (1999)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Aug 20, 1999
EW's GRADE
D

Details Rated: Unrated; Genre: Drama; With: Ewen Bremner

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THE ACID HOUSE (112 mins., unrated) Three stories by the guy who wrote Trainspotting, banged and smashed into a film by Paul McGuigan with none of Trainspotting's charm and all its grotesquerie. Lots of furious, flea-bitten, on-the-dole, Scottish slobs bleary with drugs and drink. D

Originally posted Aug 20, 1999 Published in issue #499-500 Aug 20, 1999 Order article reprints
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