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The Basketball Diaries (DVD)

Leonardo DiCaprio (actor), Mark Wahlberg (actor) and Scott Kalvert (director)

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Review

Variety, 02/06/1995, "...[DiCaprio delivers] a game, highly emotional performance that further confirms previous indications of a major talent..."

New York Times, 04/21/1995, p.C12, "...[DiCaprio is] a stunning natural performer who hides nothing, with the wrenching expressions of a latter-day James Dean..."

Rolling Stone, 03/23/1995, p.127-8, "...DiCaprio is electrifying....A wild ride fueled by profane wit and hallucinatory power..."

USA Today, 04/21/1995, p.7D, "...[The film] pulsates as an early-'60s time capsule..."

Entertainment Weekly, 04/21/1995, p.39, "...Energetic....A glimpse of the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be."

Title Note

Excerpts of Jim Carroll's book "The Basketball Diaries" first appeared in "The Paris Review" in 1970. The book was published in 1978.

Jim Carroll's song "People Who Died" was a New Wave hit in the early 1980s.

Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Classification.

Additional credits: Kathie Hersch (line producer); Diana D. Schmidt (unit production manager); David C. Dean, Robert C. Albertell (assistant directors); David C. Robinson (costume design); Verne Caruso (hairstylist); Joshua Wingett (music editor); Billy Gottlieb (music co-ordinator).

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region (unknown)
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33

Product Notes

Based on the autobiographical journals of poet Jim Carroll, BASKETBALL DIARIES follows the descent of a Catholic high school student from star basketball player to drug addict. Jim (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his friends roam the streets of New York City as goof-offs, petty thieves, and junkies. Expelled from school for using drugs before a game, Jim is also thrown out of his house and takes up street hustling. A pre-superstardom DiCaprio gives a strong performance in this gritty and uncompromising look at being young and streetwise.

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