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Original title:
The Basketball Diaries
Made in:
USA 1995
Length:
102 min.
Seen:
on TV 23-10-1998
Review read:
19590 times
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The Basketball Diaries are based on the teenage experiences of Jim Carroll, a poet and song writer, who managed to get out of a serious drug abuse.
At the beginning Jim goes to a Catholic school and plays basketball in his sparetime, but he blows his chances of getting a scholarship when he and his best friends start experimenting with drugs.
The film shows in detail what humiliations and hardships Jim must suffer, and even if The Basketball Diaries is a far cry from "Trainspotting", in which the treatment of the theme is both more shocking and innovative, it is a brutal warning against drug abuse.
Directed by:
Written by:
Brian Goluboff from Jim Carroll's novel.
Cast:
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