The Basketball Diaries (1995)

Name: The Basketball Diaries
Released: 1995
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, James Madio, Lorraine Bracco, Patrick McGaw

• Movies, Crime, Drama

• 102 min

7.4

The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.

Directed by: Scott Kalvert
Casting: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, James Madio, Lorraine Bracco, Patrick McGaw, Ernie Hudson, Bruno Kirby, Michael Imperioli, Juliette Lewis, Manny Alfaro, Toby Huss, Cynthia Daniel, Brittany Daniel, Michael Rapaport, Roy Cooper, Josh Mostel, Marilyn Sokol, Alexander Chaplin, Ben Jorgensen, Jimmy Papiris, Nick Gaetani, Lawrence Barth, Vincent Pastore, Barton Heyman, Akiko Ashley, Eric Betts, Joyce R. Korbin, Gary Iorio, Jim Carroll, William Webb, John C. Vennema, Doc Dougherty, John Glenn Hoyt, Manny Siverio, Alex Ballar, Anthony DiMaria, Patrick Coleman Duncan, Brian Ferrari, Tom Fitzpatrick, Mary Ann Hannon, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, Kate Miller, Rohan Quine, Gus Scharr, Brian Shakti
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1995-04-21
Status: Released

Tags: new york city, sports, heroin, addiction, basketball, friends, based on memoir or autobiography, drugs, 1960s, school suspension, gay theme, teenager

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