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The Basketball Diaries
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Jim Carroll is chasing his dream of becoming a basketball player. But once in a while he gets stoned with his friends, and step by step, he falls into the dark world of crime and drugs. And it looks like he will never get out from his drug addiction.
Jim Carroll is chasing his dream of becoming a basketball player. But once in a while he gets stoned with his friends, and step by step, he falls into the dark world of crime and drugs. And it looks like he will never get out from his drug addiction.
Actors:
Brian Shakti,
Michael Imperioli,
Manny Alfaro,
Akiko Ashley,
Chris M. Allport,
Joyce R. Korbin,
Juliette Lewis
Brian Shakti
Michael Imperioli
26 March 1966, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Manny Alfaro
Akiko Ashley
Chris M. Allport
23 August 1977, Burbank, California, USA
Joyce R. Korbin
Juliette Lewis
21 June 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
Country:
United States
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May 31, 2010
It was impossible in The Basketball Diaries not to take notice of DiCaprio's seemingly undauntable talent, as he channeled the tortures of the drug-addicted damned. [Blu-ray]
Common Sense Media
January 01, 2011
Stark tale of teen drug abuse and delinquency.
January 26, 2006
The angel-faced DiCaprio is a gifted actor, but he lacks the authority and physical presence to keep us with him.
New York Times
August 30, 2004
The star shines, but the movie is hard to watch.
July 01, 2011
What almost saves the muddled pic from fouling out is the raw dynamic performance by Leonardo DiCaprio... .
March 24, 2008
For those few soul-freezing moments, you get a glimpse of the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be.
October 16, 2010
An uncomfortable experience, to say the least. But also quite rewarding.
Rolling Stone
May 12, 2001
You leave The Basketball Diaries believing that Leonardo DiCaprio can do anything.
July 07, 2010
Bleak, depressing independent film making with an incredible performance by Leonardo Di Caprio, The Basketball Diaries shows that, if anything, it is the company you keep that will eventually lead to your downfall.
March 24, 2008
Significantly, the movie keeps the hero's reformation offscreen as well as unexplained; it's more interested in shock effects than in candor or elucidation.
February 13, 2001
Although it masquerades as a cautionary tale about the horrors of heroin, this epic of teen-age angst is more accurately seen as a reverential wallow in the gutter of self-absorption.