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Basketball Diaries
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Widescreen 1.85:1 Color / Production Year: 1995 / Region 1
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Basketball Diaries, The
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Overall Rating:   3.5 out of 5, including 3 reviews
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A riveting story of one boy's life onitheiedge.
In a performance hailed by critics across the country, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, a high school basketball hero headed for trouble. Teamed with his friends, Micky (Mark Wahlberg), Neutron and Pedro, Jim seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressure from his coach, his mom and school begin to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart.
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Features:
| Interactive Menus
Theatrical Trailer
Scene Index
Interviews | Video:
| | Widescreen 1.85:1 Color | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
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| Studio: Lionsgate
Production Year: 1995
Release Date: 7/22/2003
Length: 102 mins
Rating: R
Chapters: 21
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-SL
Item Code: A071088
UPC Code: 031398840329
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Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 5, including 3 reviews
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Customer Review
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Powerful and shocking - 3.75 out of 5 (5/15/1999)
Leonardo DiCaprio gives probaly the best performance of his career in the riviting story. Some scenes are extremely hard to watch. The movie forces us to watch very disturbing images of someones life decaying. It is an extremely well made comming of age story which is based off true events.
The Disc is OK. There are interviews, but the sound is not well done and the video is not anamorphic (although it is crisp).
This movie shows you what drugs can do. Very powerful.
Anyone who is
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Drugs are bad, mmkay? - 3.25 out of 5 (10/10/1998)
The Basketball Diaries is a movie so obsessed with ugliness it's almost hard to watch. Leonardo DiCaprio's performance is first rate, and is alone a good enough reason to watch the movie, which is essentially an hour and a half public service announcement against drug use.
The problem is, it's not very entertaining to watch a life with so much potential gradually destroy himself. We see Jim Carroll as a brilliant poet and great basketball player who just washes it all away for the sake of d
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seconds away from being a good dvd!! - 3.5 out of 5 (7/17/1998)
the movie is great, video transfer was awsome.
however the sound doesnt follow the movie. its like some cheap
japanese movie. I own the vhs tape and alouth its not as clear
its watchable.........i dont see how they cant catch a flaw
this big!!!!dont they watch em before sellin them???
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