Pressured by a wicked coach Bruno Kirby and a concerned mother Lorraine Bracco , Jim develops an appetite for heroin. Soon, the mean streets of New York City have replaced the basketball court as his main destination.
Jim and his friends scrounge, steal and prostitute themselves to score drugs. Jim's only chance to escape addiction may be Reggie Ernie Hudson , a neighborhood friend and hoops companion.
Last Updated: 20th July, A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction. Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. Chery Abdrazakoff Professional. How old is Leo Romeo and Juliet? Dace Betanzos Professional. It's been 20 years since The Basketball Diaries hit theaters.
ET was on set with the adorably young actors, year-old Mark Wahlberg and 19 -year-old Leonardo DiCaprio, as their epic, A-lister friendship began to blossom back in Rocco Kaas Professional. What movie does Leonardo DiCaprio play a drug addict? The Basketball Diaries. Raylene Mulot Explainer. The coach, named Swifty and played by Bruno Kirby , is a closet homosexual who spends great effort making unlikely passes at Jim "Do we understand each other?
And Jim's mother, played by Lorraine Bracco , is a one-dimensional character who exists in the movie solely to exercise Tough Love by throwing him out. Life for Jim is a downward spiral of pills, cough medicine, booze, jumping off cliffs into the Harlem River, passing out during a game and masturbating under the stars the movie heroically declines to score this scene with "Up on the Roof".
There are also exciting glimpses into the underworld of users, pushers, hookers and pimps, as Jim drifts loose from his secure moorings, while writing everything down in his diary.
Jim's poetry serves as a narration for part of the film. Like most poetry written by teenagers, it is puerile romanticism, painfully sincere, viewing life as tragic because the author is not happy.
Soon, however, he is happy. He tries heroin, and "any ache or pain or sadness or guilt was completely flushed out. The movie depends on three durable cliches: 1 Jim helps his dying friend escape from the hospital so he can push his wheelchair down 42nd Street the movies know that hospitals kill and the only cure is freedom ; 2 Jim sees his teammate Neutron on TV, playing in an all-star game while Jim is in a Skid Row bar one always happens to see on TV exactly what the story requires ; 3 Jim is saved by a noble black man, who finds him unconscious in a playground, brings him home and puts him through cold turkey in stories like this, you can always count on a heroic black ex-junkie, scouring the streets for troubled white kids who need to get whupped into shape; there's just not the same cachet in being saved by a white dude.
Ernie Hudson is strong as the ex-junkie, and there is real emotion in Lorraine Bracco's underwritten mother. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. Top Gap. See more gaps ». Create a list ». Kedvenc filmek. Watched Biopics. One of their good friends ends up dying from leukemia. They all do drugs together. They get really into doing drugs and end up getting kicked out of school. One night the three of them break into a restaurant and Pedro get arrested and sent to jail.
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