The Basketball Diaries

The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American drama film directed by Scott Kalvert, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio, and Mark Wahlberg. It is based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Jim Carroll. The film is an adaptation of poet and memoirist Jim Carroll's (Leonardo DiCaprio) juvenile diaries chronichling his kaleidoscopic free-fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatab... More
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  • Apr 21, 1995

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R (USA)

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  • 1 h 42 min

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  • Streets of New York

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Scott Kalvert

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  • Every punk on the block says it's not going to happen to them... but it does.
  • The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.

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  • 1995
  • Jun 30, 1998
  • Oct 19, 2004
  • Apr 21, 1995
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  • 1 h 42 min
  • 1 h 43 min
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The Basketball Diaries

The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 memoir written by author and musician Jim Carroll. It is an edited collection of the diaries he kept between the ages of twelve and sixteen. Set in New York City, they detail his daily life, sexual experiences, high school basketball career, Cold War paranoia, the...

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  • 3,224
  • Apr 25, 2010
  • 6.5

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