The Acid House

The Acid House is a film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's short story collection The Acid House. Welsh himself wrote the screenplay, and appears as a minor character in the film. The 1998 film, directed by Paul McGuigan, dramatises three stories from the book: All three sections are independent, but are linked by setting and by the reappearance of incidental characters, in particular Maurice Roëves who appears variously as an inebriated wedding guest, a figure in a dream, and a pub patron. All three of his parts symbolise a human manifestation of God. The film offended elements of the UK... tabloid press with a depiction of a cynical and jaded, foul-mouthed God. In some countries it has been screened with subtitles because of the heavy Edinburgh accents.
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