The Basketball Diaries (1995)

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Rating: R

Release Date: May 26, 1995

Running Time: 100 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, James Madio, Patrick McGaw, Mark Wahlberg, Roy Cooper, Vinnie Patore, Bruno Kirby, Jimmy Papiris

director: Scott Kalvert

An autobiographical account of poet and rock musician Jim Carroll's delinquent high school years, during which he excelled playing basketball for a boy's club team, meanwhile hustling to support his growing heroin addiction.

April 17, 2001

Can an acting tour de force redeem a muddled movie? Check out Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries for a lesson in how it's done. At 20, DiCaprio has already won an Oscar nomination for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, stolen scenes from Robert De Niro in This Boy's Life and survived Sharon Stone in The Quick and the Dead. In Diaries, he gets his first starring role and slam-dunks the sucker to victory even when Bryan Golubuff's conventional script and Scott Kalvert's glossy direction…