The Basketball Diaries
1995, Film, 102 min, Biography, Crime, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 64
The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Directed by Scott Kalvert
Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll
- Lorraine Bracco as Jim's Mother
- Marilyn Sokol as Chanting Woman
- James Madio as Pedro
- Patrick McGaw as Neutron
- Mark Wahlberg as Mickey
- Roy Cooper as Father McNulty
- Vincent Pastore as Construction Worker
- Bruno Kirby as Swifty
- Jimmy Papiris as Iggy
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