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product_id: 60680012
title: "The Basketball Diaries [DVD]"
brand: "leonardo dicapriobruno kirbyscott kalvert"
price: "R892"
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reviews_count: 8
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# The Basketball Diaries [DVD]

**Brand:** leonardo dicapriobruno kirbyscott kalvert
**Price:** R892
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Basketball Diaries [DVD] by leonardo dicapriobruno kirbyscott kalvert
- **How much does it cost?** R892 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

Product Description               In early Seventies New York, drug addict Jim (Leonardo DiCaprio) keeps a diary detailing the course of his dissolute life. His grip on reality loosens as his consumption of illicit substances increases, until a spell at Riker's Island juvenile reformatory gives him a chance to regain control of his life.                  .co.uk Review               The pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high-school kids. As a biography, the film doesn't amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use, violence, perversions (poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim), and the usual scream-and-puke dramas that go along with a cold-turkey session. Director Scott Kalvert doesn't seem to realise that most people don't know who Carroll is and therefore can't possibly understand why they should care about his gutterball youth. DiCaprio, having nowhere to go with his performance but maintain Carroll's tailspin, is boring and redundant. Some kind of allusion to the literary and rock & roll life that follows the mess we're watching might have been helpful. The DVD release offers the choice of a full or widescreen (letterbox) picture, plus interviews. --Tom Keogh, .com

## Product Details

- **Format:** PAL
- **Contributor:** Barton Heyman, Bruno Kirby, Bryan Goluboff, Ernie Hudson, James Madio, John Bard Manulis, Juliette Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Liz Heller, Lorraine Bracco, Mark Wahlberg, Patrick McGaw, Roy Cooper, Scott Kalvert
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 38 minutes
- **Colour:** Colour

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    LOVE THIS FILM
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 March 2023*

Great film, no concerns.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Parents guide to putting the fear of god into them and scare them straight
  

*by A***  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 12 November 2022*

If you want to steer on the right path in life this will guide you (non biblical btw) no offence.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Enlightening.
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 14 October 2021*

Take a real look at drugs and where they can take you and a look into Addiction how bad it gets. True Story.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-07*