The Basketball Diaries
The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.
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4/21/1995Runtime
102 minsOverview
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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EnglishBudget
$2,000,000Revenue
$2,381,087Homepage
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A visceral descent into heroin addiction that captures the seduction of drugs and the brutal toll of dependency through the eyes of a talented teenager. Unflinching and darkly intimate, it documents the death of hope with a poet's eye.
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