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The Basketball Diaries
“The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.”
Drama
Crime
★ 7.4/10 TMDB
1995-04-21
102 min
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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Billed Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jim Carroll
Bruno Kirby
Swifty
Lorraine Bracco
Jim's Mother
Ernie Hudson
Reggie
Patrick McGaw
Neutron
James Madio
Pedro
Mark Wahlberg
Mickey
Barton Heyman
Confessional Priest
Roy Cooper
Father McNulty
Michael Imperioli
Bobby
Juliette Lewis
Diane Moody
Manny Alfaro
Manny
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