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The Basketball Diaries
Jim Carroll is consumed by his life as a high school basketball star. Pressured by a wicked coach and a concerned mother, Jim develops an appetite for heroin. Jim's only chance to escape addiction may be Reggie; a neighborhood friend and hoops companion.
20 March 1971, New York City, New York, USA
24 January 1937, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
17 March 1976, Gainesville, Florida, USA
21 June 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 December 1945, Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA
May 12, 2001
You leave The Basketball Diaries believing that Leonardo DiCaprio can do anything.
March 24, 2008
For those few soul-freezing moments, you get a glimpse of the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be.
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.
October 16, 2010
An uncomfortable experience, to say the least. But also quite rewarding.
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.
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.
August 30, 2004
The star shines, but the movie is hard to watch.
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]
July 01, 2011
What almost saves the muddled pic from fouling out is the raw dynamic performance by Leonardo DiCaprio... .
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.
