The Basketball Diaries (1995)

Based on the autobiographical journals of poet Jim Carroll, BASKETBALL DIARIES follows the descent of a Catholic high school student from star basketball player to drug addict. Jim (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his friends roam the streets of New York City as goof-offs, petty thieves, and junkies. Expelled from school for using drugs before a game, Jim is also thrown out of his house and takes up street hustling. A pre-superstardom DiCaprio gives a strong performance in this gritty and uncompromising look at being young and streetwise.

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Very loosely based on the memoir of the same name, The Basketball Diaries transposes the late '60s adolescence of writer/artist Jim Carroll to some unspecified time period at least 15 years later, further confusing the timeframe with three decades of rock music, some by Carroll himself. Jim (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his Catholic school chums are on the hottest basketball team in New York, but their friend Bobby (Michael Imperioli) languishes in the hospital with leukemia. In-between typically boyish adventures, Jim scribbles in his notebook and experiments with sex and drugs. His group of friends begins to disinteg...
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rate after coach Swifty (Bruno Kirby) not only makes a pass at Jim, but also catches him and his pals using drugs on the court and kicks them off the team. Out of school and on the streets, Jim turns tricks, betrays friends, robs stores, and deals drugs to feed his heroin addiction. Not even the efforts of former addict Reggie (Ernie Hudson) can cure Jim. Mark Wahlberg appears as one of Jim's basketball and drug buddies, while Carroll himself makes a memorable cameo as an addict who describes the almost Catholic rituals of shooting heroin.
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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.

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Jim Carroll (DiCaprio) is lid van het basketbalteam van een katholieke school in New York. Jim en zijn vrienden gedragen zich echter nauwelijks als vrome jongeren. De manager van het basketbalteam steelt uit de kastjes van de opponenten en het favoriete tijdverdrijf van de jongens is het experimenteren met pillen. Al snel komt het leven van Jim in een neergaande spiraal terecht van pillen, hoestdrankjes, drank en halsbrekende toeren. Samen met zijn beste vriend Mickey wordt hij uit het team gegooid, tijdelijk verwijderd van school en wordt hij door zijn moeder het huis uitgegooid. De jongens begeven zich op het c...
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riminele pad om aan geld te komen en overvallen daartoe zelfs een oude vrouw. Dan komt Jim in aanraking met heroïne.
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