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The Basketball Diaries

1995·102 min

The Basketball Diaries

Directed by Scott Kalvert

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

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Jim Carroll

Mickey

Pedro

Lorraine Bracco

Mrs. Carroll

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John Bard Manulis

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The Basketball Diaries (1995) is about a high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

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Scott Kalvert directed The Basketball Diaries (1995).

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