The Basketball Diaries
Released Date
April 21, 1995
Distributor
New Line Cinema
Genre
Drama
Rating
R
Worldwide Gross
Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$2,381,087 + $21,351 = $2,402,438
$2,381,087 + $21,351 = $2,402,438
About The Basketball Diaries
A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
About
Coming-of-age film centered on a teenager who sees his dream of becoming a basketball star threatened due to an addiction to heroin.
Trivia
The film is adapted from a memoir of the same name by Jim Carroll. Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Carroll in the film.