The Basketball Diaries

1995

Action / Biography / Crime / Drama / Sport

137
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 45% · 42 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 127437 127.4K

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Plot summary

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

Director

Scott Kalvert Photo
Scott Kalvert

Top cast

Leonardo DiCaprio Photo
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll
Mark Wahlberg Photo
Mark Wahlberg as Mickey
Juliette Lewis Photo
Juliette Lewis as Diane Moody
Michael Rapaport Photo
Michael Rapaport as Skinhead
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546.36 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 22
1.65 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 96

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jotix100 7 / 10

St. Vitus' Dance

There is a type of disease associated with St. Vitus and this film qualifies in the comparison because it's quirky, fast, and it never stops moving. Director Scott Kalvert gives the movie a 'look' that makes the Manhattan of the period when it supposedly takes place, believable.Leonardo DiCaprio was at his best in the film. His performance is very nuanced and in your face, at the same time. Mr. DiCaprio makes you feel the pain Jim is going through; he is a lost soul. Not being a fan of Mark Wahlberg, I must confess that in this film, be it because of the direction, or whatever, he shines, as Mickey. As Jim's mother, Lorraine Bracco has never been better in anything she has been in recent memory. Bruno Kirby is perfectly creepy as the coach of St. Vitus High School. As far as the connection with the Columbine School massacre, since the sequence where Jim is involved is a dream, it's easy to understand how the twisted minds of the ones responsible for the killings would have taken this scene as a model for their terrible crime.
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Reviewed by rocklyn80 8 / 10

Having lost a son to this disease, this movie is too realistic

Saw this movie when it first came out and thought it was quite good, although I didn't really relate that much too it.

Now I've tried to watch it 25 yrs later, and having to go through the experiences in this film with my own son, I could not sit through it.

It's sad that youths will not see this movie til it's too late. My son is gone over two years now and still effected by his loss everyday.

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