The Basketball Diaries

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The Basketball Diaries

1995 Directed by Scott Kalvert

The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.

Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Leonardo DiCaprio Mark Wahlberg Lorraine Bracco Michael Imperioli Ernie Hudson Juliette Lewis James Madio Bruno Kirby Patrick McGaw Manny Alfaro Toby Huss Cynthia Daniel Brittany Daniel Michael Rapaport Roy Cooper Josh Mostel Marilyn Sokol Alexander Chaplin Ben Jorgensen Jimmy Papiris Nick Gaetani Vincent Pastore

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John Bard Manulis Liz Heller

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Jim Carroll Bryan Goluboff

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New Line Cinema Island Pictures

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Alternative Titles

To telos tis athootitas, Przetrwać w Nowym Jorku, Zapiski Koszykarza

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Underdogs and coming of age Crime, drugs and gangsters Intense violence and sexual transgression drugs, violence, crime, gritty or cops school, teacher, student, classroom or classmates teenager, friendship, sad, adolescents or coming of age surfing, teenager, friendship, kids or adolescents gambling, unpredictable, casino, drama or engaging Show All…

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Review by issy 🥝 ★★ 5

not quite what I expected from troy bolton’s origin story but the guy always was a bit unpredictable
Review by Jack ★★★ 5

is this a prequel to the wolf of wall street
Review by Twan ★★★★ 3

Shockingly similar to Space Jam.
Review by maria ★★★★ 1

me 25% of the movie: omg leo is so talented wtf
me 75% of the movie: omg leo is so hot wtf
Review by ally 🦋 ★★★★ 2

drug addicts freak me out a lot but wow leo’s performance in this was incredible, so raw and haunting
Review by olivia ★★★★

i don't think mark wahlberg was acting
Review by William Teasdale ★★★★½ 1

any movie in which a heroin addicted Leonardo DiCaprio jerks off on a roof deserves at least 4+ stars.
Review by francesca ★★★½ 1

seeing this made me finally understand the anger people felt at watching leo lose oscar after oscar
Review by Bunny🐰🪓 ★★★½ 4

Based on the autobiographical journals of Jim Carroll, the basketball diaries revolves around the life of him and a bunch of his friends and their descent into the hell hole of drug addiction and crime.
The basketball diaries is an accurate portrayal of how teenagers get drawn into to dark world of drugs and to what extent they can go to satisfy their hunger for it, it's a very depressing film specially the scenes of withdrawals that Leo's character jim is going through are hard to watch and leo is phenomenal when comes to his performance almost every member of the cast played their parts with perfection, but this movie isn't just about drug addiction it's also about loss and…
Review by l.h. ★★★★½

the wolf of wall street, but poor and sad
Review by Jack Hill ★★★½ 1

Requiem For A Diary
Review by Lara Pop ★★★½

That scene where leo is trying to get into the house and get some money from his mother and the camera showing both of them but them not seeing each other because of the door thats between them but me seeing both their struggles and leo grabbing his mothers hand desperately and begging her for money and her not letting him in and being right because hes stoned out of his mind and has a knife and is fucking dangerous and unpredictable and leo realizing that sweet words are not going to get him the money and him stepping into crashing into the next phase the animal phase the wild unpredictable phase and him shouting a thousand bitches at his…