Shallow Grave (Criterion Collection) (DVD)

This diabolical thriller was the first film from director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge (the smashing team behind TRAINSPOTTING). in SHALLOW GRAVE, three self-involved Edinburgh roommates played by Kerry Fox (AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE), Christopher Eccleston (ELIZABETH), and Ewan McGregor (BEGINNERS), in his first starring role take in a brooding boarder. When he dies of an overdose, leaving a suitcase full of money, the trio embark on a series of very bad decisions, with extraordinarily grim consequences for all. Macabre but with a streak of offbeat humor, this stylistically influential tale of guilt and derangement is a full-throttle bit of Hitchcockian nastiness.

Starring: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Ken Stott, Keith Allen, Kenneth Bryans, Elspeth Cameron, Jean Marie Coffey, Tony Curren, Bill Denniston, Paul Doonan, Victor Eadie, Grant Glendinning, Colin Mcredie, Robert David MacDonald, John Bett, Jenny McCrindle, Victoria Nairn, Leonard O'Malley, Gregor Powrie, David Alan Macdonald, Billy Riddoch, Gary Lewis, Frances Low, Peter Mullan, John Hodge, David Scoular, John Carmichael & His Band (John Carmichael & His Band)

Director: Andrew MacDonald