The Basketball Diaries

About The Basketball Diaries

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 crime film directed by Scott Kalvert. Released in April 1995, it runs 102 minutes.

Leonardo DiCaprio takes the lead as Jim Carroll, Bruno Kirby as Swifty, Lorraine Bracco as Jim's Mother, and Ernie Hudson as Reggie. Written by Bryan Goluboff. It was produced by Island Pictures.

Members will find based on memoir or autobiography, basketball, addiction, and heroin in it.

High Art, Trainspotting, and American Gangster make useful companions to The Basketball Diaries, all filed under drugs. It scores 7.4 out of 10 from 2,300 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.