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    The Basketball Diaries

    R1995 · Drama · 1h 42m

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  1. Apr 21, 1995 · The Basketball Diaries: Directed by Scott Kalvert. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, James Madio. A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

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    • Biography, Crime, Drama
    • Scott Kalvert
    • 1995-04-21
  2. The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American biographical crime drama film. The movie deals with drug addiction and its unfavorable outcome in lives of common people. Directed by Scott Kalvert in his feature directorial debut and based on an autobiographical novel by the same name written by Jim Carroll.

  3. Ernie Hudson. Reggie. Patrick McGaw. Neutron. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Jim Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio) is consumed by his life as a high school basketball star. Pressured by a...

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    • Scott Kalvert
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    • Leonardo Dicaprio
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  5. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin -- all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star.

  6. Apr 21, 1995 · Directed by. Scott Kalvert. Jim Carroll's cult book The Basketball Diaries, published in 1978, describes in grungy detail how the author passed in a few short months from being a Catholic high school basketball star to being a strung-out heroin addict who turned tricks for drugs.

  7. Apr 21, 1995 · Play Trailer. The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist. Overview. A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction. Jim Carroll. Author. Scott Kalvert. Director. Bryan Goluboff. Screenplay.

  8. Film Details. Notes. Brief Synopsis. An autobiographical account of poet and rock musician Jim Carroll's delinquent high school years, during which he excelled playing basketball for a boy's club team, meanwhile hustling to support his growing heroin addiction. Cast & Crew. Read More. Scott Kalvert. Director. John Vennema. Ernie Hudson.

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