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The Top Fifteen Trailers
Paramount Pictures
details
Release Date: May 26, 1995
Running Time: 100 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
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.
cast + crew
Director
Jim Carroll
Jim's Mother
Chanting Woman
Pedro
Neutron
Mickey
Father McNulty
Construction Worker
Swifty
Iggy
Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
reviews
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…
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