Leonardo DiCaprio
Jim Carroll
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The Basketball Diaries
1995
- R1995 · Drama · 1h 42m
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
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
- United States
- Graeme Revell
Synopsis. In the first scene of the film Jim Carroll is being spanked in front of his classmates by his teacher. When the teacher is finished he tells Jim "We can do it again tomorrow if you like Mr. Carroll". After this Jim and his friends Pedro (James Madio), Mickey (Mark Wahlberg), and Neutron (PAtrick McGaw) are on the Staten Island ferry.
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 ...
- (2.2K)
- Scott Kalvert
- R
- Leonardo Dicaprio
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.
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Apr 21, 1995 · The Basketball Diaries. (1995) R 04/21/1995 (US) Drama , Crime 1h 42m. User. Score. What's your Vibe ? Play Trailer. The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.
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.
