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    The Basketball Diaries

    R1995 · Drama · 1h 42m

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  1. 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. [2] Directed by Scott Kalvert [3] in his feature directorial debut and based on an autobiographical novel by the same name written by Jim Carroll.

    • $2.4 million
    • English
  2. 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.

    • (118K)
    • Biography, Crime, Drama
    • Scott Kalvert
    • 1995-04-21
  3. The Basketball Diaries R 1995 1h 42m Drama Crime Biography List 47% Tomatometer 43 Reviews 76% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings Jim Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio) is consumed by his life as a high ...

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    • Scott Kalvert
    • R
    • Leonardo Dicaprio
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  5. A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction. Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life ...

  6. The Basketball Diaries. Based on the autobiographical journals of poet Jim Carroll, "Basketball Diaries" follows the descent of a Catholic high school student from star basketball player to drug addict. Jim and his friends roam the streets of New York City as goof-offs, petty thieves, and junkies.

  7. Released January 27th, 1995, 'The Basketball Diaries' stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli The R movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 42 min, and received a user ...

  8. Apr 21, 1995 · 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. Like many such stories, it lingers lovingly over the horrors, and ends with unseemly haste after happiness is regained.

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