20 Most Horribly Misleading Movie Titles

2. Trainspotting

What It Sounds Like: Trainspotting. One of the first truly nerdy endeavours, back before being a nerd became oddly synonymous with being uber-hip. It summons the image of a Working Title film - possibly with Brenda Blethyn as someone€™s mum - about a young lad whose hobby prevents him from blossoming socially.... until he enters the national Trainspotting championships!

What It Actually Is: Drugs. Sex. Death. Violence. Those are the vital ingredients Irvine Welsh swishes about in his novel on which the film is based. There are no shots of anoraks hastily jotting down the model number of the 8.15 to St. Pancras. Set in Edinburgh with a motley crue of druggie reprobates, Trainspotting became a cult classic for its abandonment of any social niceties in favour of a realistic, and at times, brutally funny drama.

What It Should Have Been Called: Hedonism

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