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The Basketball Diaries

Name: The Basketball Diaries
Director: Scott Kalvert
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1995
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Ernie Hudson, Patrick McGaw

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

1995 · Directed by Scott Kalvert · 102 min · Drama · Crime · 14 frames

Tagline

The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.

Crew

Screenplay: Bryan Goluboff
Cinematography: David Phillips
Edited by: Dana Congdon
Music: Graeme Revell
Production design: Christopher Nowak
Produced by: Liz Heller, John Bard Manulis

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll
Bruno Kirby as Swifty
Lorraine Bracco as Jim's Mother
Ernie Hudson as Reggie
Patrick McGaw as Neutron
James Madio as Pedro
Mark Wahlberg as Mickey
Barton Heyman as Confessional Priest
Roy Cooper as Father McNulty
Michael Imperioli as Bobby

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Island Pictures
Budget: $2,000,000
Box office: $2,381,087
Themes: new york city, sports, heroin, addiction, basketball, friends, based on memoir or autobiography, drugs, 1960s, school suspension

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