The Basketball Diaries

The film is an Film adaptation of poet and memoirist Jim Carroll's juvenile diaries chronicling his kaleidoscopic free-fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. The role of Jim is played by Leonardo DiCaprio. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers on his friends and the basketball court; the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. Bobby (Michael Imperioli), a best friend who is dying of leukemia; a coach ("Swifty", played by Bruno Kirby) who makes sexual advances to Jim; and an appetite for cocaine and heroin begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. After Bobby succumbs to his illness, Jim tries heroin for the first time and addiction.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 3168
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide April 21, 1995
  • Runtime 102 minutes
  • Genres Drama Crime
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages English
  • Studio New Line Cinema
  • Production Company New Line Cinema Island Pictures
  • Production Countries United States of America
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com
  • Box Office Worldwide $2,400,000
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