The Basketball Diaries | |
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Directed by | Scott Kalvert |
Screenplay by | Bryan Goluboff |
Based on | The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll |
Produced by | Liz Heller John Bard Manulis |
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Cinematography | David Phillips |
Edited by | Dana Congdon |
Music by | Graeme Revell |
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Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.4 million[1] |
The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American biographical crime drama film. The movie deals with drug addiction and its unfavorable outcome in lives of common people.[2] Directed by Scott Kalvert[3] in his feature directorial debut and based on an autobiographical novel by the same name written by Jim Carroll. It tells the story of Carroll's teenage years as a promising high school basketball player and writer who develops an addiction to heroin.[4] Distributed by New Line Cinema,[5] The Basketball Diaries stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, along with Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Ernie Hudson, Patrick McGaw, James Madio, Michael Imperioli, and Mark Wahlberg in supporting roles.[6]
The Basketball Diaries premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 1995.[7] The film was widely released in theaters on April 21, 1995, to mixed reviews and grossed $2.4 million at the box office.[8][9][10][11]