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Genres:
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Biography /
Crime /
Drama /
Sport /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Scott Kalvert
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Actors:
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Bruno Kirby,
Marilyn Sokol,
Roy Cooper,
Patrick McGaw,
Alexander Chaplin,
Jimmy Papiris,
Nick Gaetani,
Ben Jorgensen,
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Lorraine Bracco,
James Madio,
Mark Wahlberg,
Vincent Pastore,
Josh Mostel,
Juliette Lewis
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Duration:
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102 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)147.5
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Plot Summary:
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An autobiographical chronicle of the lives of five kids until they behove young people. It is a portray of worthless kids who start with pint-sized crimes and intention up braking bones and more.
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Basketball Diaries, The
This film is excellent. It is disturbing and I do not know if I would ever want to watch it again but I am glad that I have seen it. Acting - excellent! Writing - excellent! Well worth watching.
Leo on good form
Some fine acting from the young Leonardo Di Caprio in a fairly predictable story about one young man going way off the rails.
Basketball Diaries, The
"...[DiCaprio delivers] a spirited, very zealous performance that new confirms previous indications of a major talent..."
Basketball Diaries, The
This dates from the time when Leonardo DiCaprio was still a promising actor measure than the teenage flight of fancy icon he has behoove. Based on the autobiographical writings of Jim Carroll, it attempts to accurately the depths of youngster anguish but, ultimately, only betrays the pop-video limitations of launching director Scott Kalvert's imagination. DiCaprio occasionally comes close to real pathos as the hoop dreamer wallowing in a slough of sex, drugs and squalor, be that as it may his misery is founded on cliché and there's no real badger in his pain. Best buddy Mark Wahlberg and desperate mum Lorraine Bracco are more persuasive, but Kalvert is clearly to as impact, not actuality.
Basketball Diaries, The
Leonardo DiCaprio, then 19, turns in a commanding perfornmance as Jim Carroll, a Catholic highschooler contending with basketball platoon stardom, a best friend who is dying of luekemia and teen angst who develops a undergo notwithstanding heroin when the glue he sniffs with best friends Mickey (Wahlberg) and Pedro (Madio) ceases to satisfy. Of without a doubt, the dope puts Jim on a slippery hill and full-blown addiction swiftly takes over his soul. His dreams of becoming a basketball principal are replaced not later than a nightmare of living on the streets, where he thieves and hustles gay men to support his usage. All of this he records in his diary, in hip, aching for language. Orderly after his champion What's Eating Gilbert Grape and...
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