Basketball Diaries
Genre: Drama
Reviewed in Issue 17 of Widescreen Review
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Ernie Hudson, Patrick McGaw, James Madio, Mark Wahlberg
| Studio/Distributor | PolyGram Video |
| Catalog Number | 800 635 899-1 |
| MPAA Rating | R |
| Retail Price | $$34.95 |
| Running Time | 102 |
| Color Type | Color |
| Chaptered/Scene Access | Yes |
| Closed Captioned | Yes |
| Theatrical Release | 1995 |
| LD Release Date | 9/1/95 |
| Director | Scott Kalvert |
| Screenplay/Written By | Subscribers only |
| Story | Subscribers only |
| Music | Subscribers only |
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| Costume Designer | Subscribers only |
| Editor | Subscribers only |
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| Executive Producers | Subscribers only |
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| Stars | Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Ernie Hudson, Patrick McGaw, James Madio, Mark Wahlberg |
| Principal Photography | Subscribers only |
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| Soundtrack | Dolby Surround |
| Theatrical Sound | Subscribers only |
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Subscribe FreeBased on the best-selling novel by Jim Carroll, Basketball Diaries is a powerful story about a basketball playing student on the championship team at a New York parochial high school who dreams of becoming a star player. He shatters his potential and dreams when he becomes caught up in the murky world of big-city drugs, desperation and self-destruction. His life spins out of control until he discovers his writing talent in the diary that he scribbles in daily—a talent that becomes his salvation.
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