The Basketball Diaries
The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.
Country
Production
Budget
$2 000 000
Box office
$2 381 087
Director
Actors
Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Ernie Hudson, Patrick McGaw, James Madio, Mark Wahlberg, Barton Heyman, Roy Cooper, Michael Imperioli
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
John Bard Manulis, Liz Heller, Chris Blackwell, Dan Genetti
Camera operator
David Phillips
Composer
Artist
Christopher Nowak
Audition
Avy Kaufman
Editing
Dana Congdon
Whole Team (77)
Whole Team (77)
Short description
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is included in the list of works prohibited from distribution in the Republic of Belarus.
- River Phoenix was originally cast as Jim Carroll, but he died of a drug overdose before filming began.
- The role of the basketball coach was offered to Steven Lange, but he declined, stating that the book in the film's script had been significantly altered.
- Michael Imperioli, who played Jim's best friend (Bobby), Lorraine Bracco, who played Jim's mother, and Vincent Pastore, who played the man on the ferry chasing the main characters at the beginning of the film, later starred in the popular series "The Sopranos".
- The film was banned after a teenager named Barry Lukatis reenacted one of its scenes in 1996, wearing a cowboy duster to school concealing a weapon, and opened fire. In 1998, another teenager, Kip Kinkel, repeated the scene – after killing his parents, he went to school in a similar duster with a concealed weapon – resulting in 2 students dead and 24 wounded.
- Jim Carroll himself appears in the film in a cameo role as a drug addict in one of the scenes in a den.
- The film is based on Jim Carroll's autobiographical novel "The Basketball Diaries" (1978), which was written based on a diary the author kept when he was a teenager.
- The film is based on Jim Carroll's autobiographical novel 'The Basketball Diaries' (1978), which was written based on a diary the author kept as a teenager.
- River Phoenix was originally cast in the role of Jim Carroll, but he died of a drug overdose before filming began.
- The role of the basketball coach was offered to Stephen Lang, but he declined, citing that the book had been heavily altered in the film's screenplay.
- Michael Imperioli, who played Jim's best friend (Bobby), Lorraine Bracco, who played Jim's mother, and Vincent Pastore, who played the man on the ferry chasing the protagonists at the beginning of the film, later starred in the popular series 'The Sopranos'.
- Jim Carroll himself appears in the film in a cameo role as a drug addict in one of the scenes set in a crack house.
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