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Directed by: Scott Kalvert
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio (Jim Carroll), Mark Wahlberg (Mickey), Ernie Hudson (Reggie), James Madio (Pedro), Patrick McGaw (Neutron), Lorraine Bracco (Mother), Bruno Kirby (Swifty), Juliette Lewis (Diane), Michael Imperioli (Bobby)
Country: USA; Effed Up American Cinema
Language: English (Optional Eng Subs)
Runtime: 01:41:56
Genres: Based on a True Story, Drugs, Teenagers, Gay, Prostitution
Plot – Spoilers:
Based on an autobiographical novel.
Jim and his buddies are promising basketball players. They’re mostly working-class kids who’ve won scholarships to the schools they attend. Initially dabbling with glue, Jim moves on to heroin shortly after the death of a close friend.
An early Leonardo DiCaprio movie that explored his potential as an actor, The Basketball Diaries, also features a memorably painful and dramatic scene of a mother turning away her junkie son from her door.
Loved this movie
Pampered Hollywood version of the life of a hard core heroin addict. Per usual, nepo baby DiCaprio Bogarts that joint to extremes and over acts the part to the point of embarrassment. Scorsese, De Niro and most of the Hollywood elite praise DiCaprio like he is this great actor but he over acts in every movie I’ve ever seen him in, making his characters a joke. All the scenes with Lorraine Bracco and DiCaprio are fucking cringe, especially the super over acting job by DiCaprio when mom won’t let him in to her apartment. When nepo babies DiCaprio and Marky Mark from The Funky Bunch are acting all tough and hard core it’s laughable. I’ve seen Wahlberg deliver good performances in other films but he was a joke in this one. There are a lot of good actors in the film and it’s a good story but, per usual, DiCaprio sinks the ship (get it?) with his over acting. 2 stars.
Reggie is a good man, not a lot of people have the courage to help someone when they’re like this. Addiction is a disease it changes people, it’s important to help them anyway.
This is such a good movie. I’ve never had a problem but it made me understand the life of an addict. 👏 👏 👏
I pray for those who suffer from drugs including any of you who need help
The truth …
Looking for another movie similar called the goat a basketball movie about a crack head
the best movie ever made on the best website ever made
me like
this shit beatutifull wtf
Fun fact: The dude in the basement who showed how to make speedball is Jim Carroll himself!
love this movie
me: 💅MUM😏GIVE🐿️MEH🏃♀️SUM🍆FRIGGIN😳LE💦MONEH👹PLSs👹
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love it
gay movie
it was so good and it was a funny movie
bravo, bravo.
Suck my dick
I absolutely love this movie. It’s been one of my favorites for years. Thank you eum
I liked it a lot, but less than heroin and crime
great movie. thanks, EUM
this shite has turned into TCM
Shite
Spam a triggered coward in his gay cry baby asshole
In yalls description. They weren’t sniffing glue. They were huffing ether on the rags. Ether can also be used to make drugs like coke and meth.
Can anyone recommend a film wherein Leonardo doesn’t piss and whinge like a little bitch?
“Effed up” in the sense that Leonardo DiCaprio is such a grotesque, vile human being . . . And how retarded and boring Hollywood productions are, I guess. Really weak and stupid.
I remember that when the Columbine shootings happened, some people blamed “The Basketball Diaries”. When I saw the movie, I couldn’t understand the connection at all. True, there’s a school shooting scene, but focusing only on that misses the movie’s point. The movie is the true story of New York teenager Jim Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio) and how he descended into the ugly world of drug addiction. If you’re squeamish, then I should warn you that there are some pretty nasty scenes of drug addiction and what happens.
Yes, it’s ugly what happens, but that’s what makes the movie so good: they’re not afraid to get down and dirty. Also starring are Lorraine Bracco as Jim’s mother, Mark Wahlberg as Jim’s friend, Bruno Kirby as the high school coach, Juliette Lewis as an acquaintance, and Ernie Hudson as a man who saves Jim from dying out in the cold.
Like I said, this is not a movie for the fainthearted. But otherwise, I truly recommend it.
Instantly, when I watched this one, I could not help but harken back to Everybody’s All-American, which had sports as an undercurrent to the central love story between Gavin and Babs streching a full quarter-century in spanning four decades. Even with football enveloping all which had entwined their lives, the humaneness of those two characters could not be discounted, especially with Babs emerging into a more stronger character who came into her own as a woman and an individual toward the film’s end. I bring that up to start my assessment of Love and Basketball. Yes, there were differences, of course, with Quincy (Omar Epps, of whose work I have been a fan of since “Juice” in 1992) and Monica (Sanaa Lathan, who has seemingly come from nowhere to emerge as a serious talent to be reckoned with on the screen!) both being African-American. And instead of football, the sport was basketball. And instead of one athlete, there were two, as Monica was a superior talent on par with Gavin Gray and Quincy McCall. And the story, of course, was set more in the recent past, from 1981 to the present. Nonethelss, this was also a film which touched my heart. I loved the depth which both actors in this film displayed, showing them not only as athletes and people, but also as they were with regard to their families as well. And the depths from where they came to where they ultimately went, from their beginnings as children to… Read more »
Too clean-cut and whimsical for me.