The Basketball Diaries [Blu-ray]

The Basketball Diaries [Blu-ray]
by Scott Kalvert

The Basketball Diaries [Blu-ray]
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Actor: James Madio, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, Patrick McGaw
Director: Scott Kalvert
Brand: Universal Studios
Producer: Chris Blackwell
Producer: Dan Genetti
Producer: John Bard Manulis
Producer: Kathie Hersch
Producer: Liz Heller
Writer: Bryan Goluboff
Writer: Jim Carroll
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2010-04-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Product features:
  • BASKETBALL DIARIES BLU-RAY (BLU-RAY DISC)
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Summary of The Basketball Diaries [Blu-ray]

BASKETBALL DIARIES - Blu-Ray Movie
The pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high school kids. As a biography, the film doesn't amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use, violence, perversions (poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim), and the usual scream-and-puke dramas that go along with a cold-turkey session. Director Scott Kalvert doesn't seem to realize that most people don't know who Carroll is and therefore can't possibly understand why they should care about his gutterball youth. DiCaprio, having nowhere to go with his performance but maintain Carroll's tailspin, is boring and redundant. Some kind of allusion to the literary and rock & roll life that follows the mess we're watching might have been helpful. --Tom Keogh
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