The Basketball Diaries R
The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 30, 1998
- 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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Rating: 1.5/5 --
Although it masquerades as a cautionary tale about the horrors of heroin, this epic of teen-age angst is more accurately seen as a reverential wallow in the gutter of self-absorption.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2/5 --
The star shines, but the movie is hard to watch.
New York Times
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: 87/100 --
...an intoxicating, frightening and emotionally honest essay on the self-destructive impulses of the nascent artist.
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
You leave The Basketball Diaries believing that Leonardo DiCaprio can do anything.
Rolling Stone
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
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
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