The Basketball Diaries (Blu-ray) R
The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 20, 2010
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Leonardo DiCaprio & Mark Wahlberg | |
| Performer: | Lorraine Bracco, Bruno Kirby, Juliette Lewis, Michael Imperioli, Ernie Hudson & Brittany Daniel | |
| Directed by | Scott Kalvert | |
| Screenwriting by | Brian Goluboff | |
| Original story by | Jim Carroll |
Entertainment Reviews:
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...DiCaprio is electrifying....A wild ride fueled by profane wit and hallucinatory power...
Rolling Stone
Rating: C+ --
What almost saves the muddled pic from fouling out is the raw dynamic performance by Leonardo DiCaprio... .
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: B- --
For those few soul-freezing moments, you get a glimpse of the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be.
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Entertainment Weekly
...Energetic....A glimpse of the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 8/10 --
An uncomfortable experience, to say the least. But also quite rewarding.
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IGN DVD
Significantly, the movie keeps the hero's reformation offscreen as well as unexplained; it's more interested in shock effects than in candor or elucidation.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/5 --
Bleak, depressing independent film making with an incredible performance by Leonardo Di Caprio, The Basketball Diaries shows that, if anything, it is the company you keep that will eventually lead to your downfall.
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Matt's Movie Reviews
Product Description:
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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