The Basketball Diaries

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Summary: the greatest movie/book I have seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Leonardo was the best thing in it. The movie
was wery vell done and the book was ok.
I recomend the movie but not the book.
MARÍA. END

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Summary: The Bomb Digity
Review: This was one of the best movies that I have ever seen! Leo played a really good role! But he did better in Titanic and Romeo&Juliet! Well I recommend that you see this movie or read this book! The book stunk after you have seen the movie! JUST SEE THE MOVIE! END

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Summary: Very good
Review: I think this is a great website because I loved this movie. Leonardo DiCaprio is a great actor and he actually makes you feel like you're living in his terrible life and world. END

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Summary: pretty good
Review: This book was really intresting and enjoyable. Iusually put books down after 30 pages or so, but this book kept me intrested. It brought me into a whole different world- a world where drugs are plentiful and heavily used and sex is abused. I must say, however, that this book is not for younger children, because of the many, many obcenities. END

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Summary: basketball Diaries
Review: Before I did this movie like any actor I read the book honestly I could not put it down! It was a great book and Jim Carrols life was just so sadding END

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Summary: In depth true story with realistic views of one boys life
Review: For those of us that dont know what being a drug addic is like and want to see the true results from abusing drugs this book is for you. Jim Carroll had taken diaries of growing up in the 70's and his problems with using heroin and pills and the struggles of a young addic. The Basketball Diaries shows the downfall of a once upstanding student with a very good future. Speaking from expierence this book truly, truly, represnts the real life of young drug abusers or any drug abuser for that matter and the set backs that drugs have on us. A+ (The Movie also is an A+ Leonardo Dicaprio plays Jim Carroll and does more than an excellent job on captioning the true essence of the story) Both book and movie are a must.

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Summary: Engrossing
Review: I had no idea what this film was about when I picked it up at block buster the other day. It was free for gold members, which I happen to be. Dicaprio and Ernie Hudson were in so I said, why not.

I started watching the film and I thought, oh, this is a kids movie. The next thing I knew, Dicaprio was snorting cocaine with a hot chick who promised him the coke would make him superman in bed.

And that's when the film grabbed me because I knew then that the kid was going to end up hooked. The film then depicts just how this happened to a promising young basketball player, who made way to many bad decisions in his formative years.

Check this one out.

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Summary: Excellent!!
Review: Excellent! excellent! excellent!
Di Caprio is superb!
The story is great and make us think about life.

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Summary: The only Leonardo Decapula movie worth seeing.
Review: I reallllllly can't stand Leonardo he couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag. Time and again I found myself being forced to watch the trite turned out by this no talent,but now I can say this guy has something or had something this is an earlier film before he blew up into the hollywood monstrosity. This one and only this one is worth seeing,But that may have more to do with the story direction and script than Leo.Good Flick!

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Summary: A cry felt in the belly.
Review: To those who have not experienced the world of hard core street drugs and the violent consuming grip they can have, I point to this movie as maybe the quintessential performance of an individual addict. Trainspotting and other movies may cover a drug, or a lifestyle better, but nothing captures the tragedy of an individual like DiCaprio's performance in Basketball Diaries. The defining moment is DiCaprio, pounding on his mother's door, begging for $20 so that he can score just one more hit. His mother, played by Lorraine Bracco, huddles on the other side of the door, crying, and fighting the maternal instincts to help her son, when she knows he can not be helped. The cry that Leo gives out, as he pulls his cap down over his face in frustration, a sixteen-year-old crying for his mommy, because it all hurts too much to cope. That is the face of addiction. DiCaprio's cry comes from his belly, the whiny tantrum cry of a four-year-old who just can't understand why he can't get his way. And yet, underneath that, one gets the sensation of the turmoil and pain within his heart, and the ultimate sadness that eats away at him.
This movie introduced me to the beautiful and edgy work of Jim Carroll, the star of the latest Beat generation. His story is so captivatingly told through the performance of DiCaprio. However, the supporting cast is also spectacular. Mark Wahlberg deliveres a great support perfomance, as a cohort in drug addiction, helping to supply pills, glue, heroin, and the like.
Keep an eye out for an early performance by Michael Imperioli, of Sopranos fame, playing a teammate of DiCaprio and Wahlberg, who passes away during the film. Yet one more devastating event in Carroll's life.
There are some stylistic choices made by the director that may not fit with some people, but they are only a minor detail in a very powerful and honest film.