The Basketball Diaries

The Basketball Diaries

  • Director: Scott Kalvert
  • Writer: Jim Carroll,Bryan Goluboff
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: April 21, 1995
  • Runtime: 1h 42min
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital, DTS
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Streets of New York
  • "The Basketball Diaries" is a feature film directed by Scott Kalvert and starring Leo , Ronan Breco and James Madio . It was released in the United States on April 21, 1995   .
    The film tells the story of high school student Jim dreaming of becoming a basketball star, but he was lost, depraved, and perverted after experiencing a blow, and then awakened with the help of his friends and began to write a diary for reflection.

    Details

    • Release date April 21, 1995
    • Filming locations Forest Hills High School, Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies New Line Cinema, Island Pictures

    Box office

    Budget

    $2,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,381,087

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $765,335

    Gross worldwide

    $2,402,438

    Movie reviews

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    • By Marcelina 2022-08-02 15:37:51

      The Basketball Diaries--Find Yourself in the Lost

      Diary of the Edge??? Youth is beautiful, but not everyone can live it well. After going through confusion and going the wrong way, the only thing that can save you is yourself. The Jim in the film is young and youthful, He looks rebellious and insane. Finally, he makes mistakes again and again. He can't control himself. He is addicted to drugs. At the beginning, he looked rebellious. I think it's...

    • By Jasmin 2022-06-27 12:27:24

      Diary of the Edge: Belief in the Future, Fearless Sunshine

      Sometimes I feel that youth without stories is not enough to miss, but watching Jim's youth with stories is different and full of confusion. Jim said that the boys on the street didn't think they would become addicts who couldn't quit; they just wanted to try. But seeing his degeneration step by step clearly, and seeing him lost in thought and unable to change the status quo, was only distressing. If Jim is a heinous and thoroughly evil person, he will not make people feel pity and then...

    • By Deontae 2022-04-19 09:01:56

      always pure...

      Basketball Diary The young and firm LEONADO, the familiar dirty campus smell, the dead youth, are different but the same. . . Street children, with real hearts, are tumbling in the thorns of society and religious hypocrisy, covered in blood. The friend around the corner never left. These dream-like words.

        In the middle of seeing the painful part of JIMMY CORLL, those psychological hazes began to emerge again, and those pains that made me completely lose my will, will it still come....

    • By Eduardo 2022-04-19 09:01:56

      what made you so down


      He, a person who likes to write some poems and articles, a hopeful to enter the professional basketball league,
      a girl who disdains taking drugs, and a priest who does not bow to hypocritical priests, what has changed such a person, maybe he would have Turned into a junkie? Then why was he so surprised when he saw his high school friend Newjoon on TV thanking his parents for being a basketball rookie, his best friend who had been playing with him since he was 3 got leukemia and he was...

    • By Brook 2022-04-19 09:01:56

      The Basketball Diaries

      I have to say, Xiao Li is really handsome, but he is too thin when he is young, especially in this film, he feels like he has a big head and a small body... Of course, because he wants to show the state of a drug addict, it may be better to be thinner, but standing Mark Wahlberg is surrounded by...
      too handsome people are always more difficult to win awards. This is a cruel reality. In fact, Xiao Li is already an uncle with great acting skills, but he hasn't won the Golden Man yet. Will he...

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    • By Eloy 2023-09-06 02:46:05

      Xiao Li's acting skills are amazing! The plot is similar to train...

    • By Rachelle 2023-03-09 19:39:18

      20130317, you were so public when you were young, and your pain was also public. Ultimately everyone needs a redemption, and this redemption may be another person, or something you have become accustomed to over the years, or another thing that appears in your life. Confused and confused teenager. Edge once, not impossible.

    • By Mallory 2022-11-19 05:58:48

      Years are a pig-killing knife, and the knife and knife make people old and...

    • By Darion 2022-04-24 07:01:07

      I just want to be...

    • By Evangeline 2022-04-24 07:01:07

      The film is based on the autobiographical novel of writer and musician Jim Carroll, but the time setting is changed from the 1960s to the 1990s. Jim is a bad boy. He and McKee are all students of Father Menotti. They make trouble everywhere, steal, and refuse to accept any discipline. Jim's mother tried to lead him on the right track, and he was even more mischievous. Unexpectedly, a homeless person actually changed his attitude towards...

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    The film lacks a certain degree of persuasiveness, and the preaching taste is a bit too deliberate. Without DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg, it would be even more ostentatious and unattractive. ("Empire", "Chicago Sun Times" review) 
    "The Basketball Diaries" is very serious from filming to editing, but the overall quality of the film seems a bit clumsy. Although the film lacks style and vision, DiCaprio's performance is excellent. ("San...
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    Movie quotes

    • Swifty: [after getting hit in the nose by Jim] All right. Fine. Tell them whatever you want. Nobody's gonna believe a druggie like you, anyway.

      Jim: What?

      Swifty: You think we're stupid? You think we don't know what you've been doin'?

    • Jim: [Walks up to Swifty] Don't worry, Swifty, I won't rat you out.

      [Walks up to Father McNulty]

      Jim: And in the next life, Father, I'm gonna have the paddle!

      [Walks out]

    • Jim: Know this. There's different types of users of junk. You got your rich dilettante square-ass who dabbles now and then and always has enough money to run off to the Riviera if he feels he's fucking around to the danger point. Street junkies hate these pricks, but they're always suckers, and their money makes them tolerable. Then you got your upper-middle-class Westchester preppies... same as the others, basically. What they're good for is opening their mommy and daddy's eyes to this social virus and putting pressure on the government to do something about it. Then there's us street kids. Start fucking around very young, 13 or so. We think we all got it under control and won't get strung out. This rarely works. I'm living proof. But in the end, you just got to see the junk as another 9-to-5 gig. The hours are just a bit more inclined to shadows.