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The Basketball Diaries
Directed by
Scott Kalvert
R
1995
1h 42m
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A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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Cast of The Basketball Diaries
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jim Carroll
Bruno Kirby
Swifty
Lorraine Bracco
Jim's Mother
Ernie Hudson
Reggie
Patrick McGaw
Neutron
James Madio
Pedro
Mark Wahlberg
Mickey
Barton Heyman
Confessional Priest
Roy Cooper
Father McNulty
Michael Imperioli
Bobby
Juliette Lewis
Diane Moody
Manny Alfaro
Manny
Toby Huss
Kenny
Cynthia Daniel
Winkie
Brittany Daniel
Blinkie
Michael Rapaport
Skinhead
Josh Mostel
Counterman
Marilyn Sokol
Chanting Woman
Alexander Chaplin
Bobo
Ben Jorgensen
Tommy
The Basketball Diaries Ratings & Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
For those few soul-freezing moments, you get a glimpse of the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be.
TV Guide
If the idea of watching Leonardo DiCaprio pout for 90 minutes gives you sweaty palms, by all means go.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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.
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Emanuel Levy
You never understand what really motivated this intelligent adolescent, a gifted basketball player and sensitive writer, to descend into the hellish life of a drug addict and hustler on the mean streets of New York.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
The star shines, but the movie is hard to watch.
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Nick Davis
Crushingly over-emoted and internally inconsistent; for Leo die-hards only, and how many of those are around anymore?
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Alex Sandell
Okay film that unjustly caused its fair share of controversy.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
You leave The Basketball Diaries believing that Leonardo DiCaprio can do anything.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
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.
USA Today
Mike Clark
DiCaprio has so much presence that he almost saves the day, but this is a movie that'll make you want to opt for Jim Carrey's The Basketball Diaries.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Amazingly, though, even with Kalvert's lack of style and vision, the greatness of DiCaprio's performance is undiminished.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Will there ever be a market for a movie about a character who hurries past his drug phase because he can't wait to tell you what he did after he pulled his act together? Probably not.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A stepped-on product that never scores.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
DiCaprio goes as far into the hell of drug abuse as any actor ever has -- and comes out a star.
Washington Post
Joe Brown
A movie for masochists, an unrelentingly ugly 'Just Say No' propaganda movie, it might have been bankrolled by Nancy Reagan.
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