MOVIE · 1995
The Basketball Diaries
CrimeDrama102 min
Leonardo DiCaprio is Jim Carroll, a New York high school basketball standout and aspiring writer whose life veers into heroin addiction as the city around him hardens. Drawn from Carroll’s own writing, the film follows his slide from school gyms and notebooks to hustling on the streets, as the routines of school, family, and the neighborhood start to give way. Lorraine Bracco is the mother watching him slip further away, and Mark Wahlberg appears among the young men orbiting Jim’s world.
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