A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

According to Shallow Grave/Trainspotting writer John Hodge, his original draft for A Life Less Ordinary went something like this: "It took place in Scotland and France," he says in the script's introduction. "In the opening scene, a girl swallows a ring. In a secret laboratory somewhere a man is injected with Compound X403. He wakes up on the central reservation of a busy road with a hand in his pocket, but not his own, ie someone else's hand. Off he goes to France, and before long he and the girl are standing in the grounds of her old school reciting Tennyson. The film was to reach its climax with spontaneous combustion on the Isle of Barra."

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