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Basketball Diaries [Blu-ray] [US Import]

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4.1 out of 5 stars 56 customer reviews
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  • Language: English
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Uni Dist Corp (Music)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00344EAFA
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 73,085 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Crime pays for the drug addiction of a high-school hoopster and three teammates in 1960s New York.

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5.0 out of 5 starsLeo's and Mark's best performance of their lives
By dan-666@another.com on 4 Feb. 2002
Format: DVD
What a gripping film! Leonardo Di Caprio is excellent as a young basketball hopefull turned street junkie, with him another school dropout who turns to drugs is Mark Whalberg who deliverd another excellent performence, their best yet! really worth buying. All in all a fantastic, hard hitting drama that leaves you amazed.dan-66
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4.0 out of 5 starsWho's the film about? Who cares... it's not the name that counts!
By M.W. Thrasher on 3 Feb. 2007
Format: DVD
I have got to agree with the previous reviewer that this movie is about various aspects of personal decadence and degradation. It's the story of a kid with potential (which is quite obvious from the onset) who spirals down the vortex of smack addiction and cannot come back. It is a story of disenchanted youth, of street harshness, of strayed paths and choices made that lead to very different outcomes, of a life reclaimed from the gutter, of an gruesome experience not only survived but also utilised for further growth.

It turns out that the story is about a poet and musician named Jim Carroll. Even better. I had no idea who Jim Carroll was before I saw the movie but this didn't take away from the movie. The fact that someone, anyone really, went through such experiences and lived to tell the tale was a powerful enough theme to make this movie an apt depiction of the hellride that is known as street junk... and of the boundless potential of human beings, no matter how downtrodden and beaten they are.

Having said that, the movie lacks the sharpness of a script that would place it in the top levels. The whole atmosphere is quite compelling, though, and transmits the arid reality of the urban desert, making up for the textual shortcomings. The four youths come across as a gang of great friends tested in the heat of puerile carelessness, and one cannot help but wonder how their lives would have turned out had their fifth friend not died from cancer, which is what sets off the whole downward spiral in motion ever so inconspicuously.

At the end of the day, people will do anything to feel good again. They will even die for it. Jim Carroll chose to live and tell the tale though. Let the man's story inspire despite the shortcomings of the film. "It's like a finger that points to the moon. Don't look at the finger or you'll miss all the heavenly glory."
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5.0 out of 5 starsRead the book!
By Kelsey on 17 Nov. 2013
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
For anyone who has read the book, the film really does it justice. Although no film captures the books perfectly, Leo's performance was excellent. I would recommend that anyone who watches this film, also reads the book.
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5.0 out of 5 starsDisturbing bur remarkable!
By Mr. A. J. Ralph on 30 Jun. 2009
Format: DVD
The basketball diaries stars Leonardo Dicaprio stars as a young,talented basketball player who loses everything to his addiction of heroin.The film descends more and more of his desperation to robbing elderly women to prostittuion.

Very depressing material.
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4.0 out of 5 starsdangerous, of the disturbing depths of drugged up communitys
By mel_susanmellor@excite.co.uk on 31 Jan. 2001
Format: VHS Tape
Leo Dicaprio is brilliant, this is without question, the most brilliant portrayed role he has ever challanged, yet sadly has not been appreciated for. An eye opener toward the world of drugs, a warning and toward the deep outreach of the wrecked lives, that could have been something. A clear portrayed of the devistating effects this life can lead you too, and take from you. what is even more chilling is not only the reality that this occurs but also the spine invockeing reality that this disturbing bullet flying film, was based on a twisted reality, of young adolescents destroyed emotionally anguished existance.
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2.0 out of 5 starsWell-acted but poorly executed
By TGillespie on 4 May 2011
Format: DVD
Based on the autobiographical novel written by Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries follows one young man's descent into addiction, crime and homelessness. Jim (here played with mature dedication by Leonardo Di Caprio) is a promising high school basketball player, who along with his three friends, enjoy shooting hoops and getting into general mischief. What starts out as a past-time, soon deteriorates into something more deprived and desperate, as Jim sees his world crash around him as his drug habit becomes an unstoppable affliction.

When Jim's situation gets so desperate that he leaves home to hustle and rob on the streets, he begins to push away the people in his life that were once close to him. His mother, played by Lorraine Bracco, throws him out after the extremities of his situation become apparent to her and refuses him back. Reggie (Ernie Hudson) was an inspirational figure and mentor to Jim and regularly met up to play basketball in the court. And Neutron (Patrick McGaw) distances himself from Jim and his friends' habits and focuses on his basketball career, much to Jim's dismay. These people will all have a profound effect on Jim's eventual redemption. The film also switches the book's real-life setting from 1960's New York to the 90's.

What The Basketball Diaries attempts to do is to create a realistic and gritty (a phrase that seems to be thrown around a lot these days) depiction of drug abuse, and create a hellish portrait of a confused young man who his throwing away his many talents in favour of a life that is doing nothing but ruining his life and isolating the people around him.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant!!
By A Customer on 5 Dec. 2000
Format: DVD
This is a great film and shows what drugs can do to you. leo is an excellent actor in it and he makes it all look so real. This film would definately put you off ever taking heroin.
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