The basketball diaries has 11 trivia questions about it. Quite possibly the best opening movie scene of all time. The film became controversial in the aftermath of the 1997 heath high school shooting and. At the beginning of the movie, just after the by was beaten by the father. Secrets revealed about the making of the basketball diaries. After many attempts at turning it into a movie, rising stars leonardo dicaprio and mark wahlberg were.
Basketball diaries vhs vintage 90s cult classic heroin junkie movie. The basketball diaries 1995 jim carroll leonardo dicaprio is consumed by his life as a high school basketball star. The basketball diaries film by kalvert 1995 britannica. His life centers around the basketball, and his dream is being a basketball star. Financial analysis of the basketball diaries 1995 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. The basketball diaries 1995 alongside a very crazy mark wahlberg, dicaprio is a prepschool hoopster, parttime juvenile delinquent and upandcoming writer in this melodrama that veers.
The basketball diaries soundtrack was released in 1995 by polygram to accompany the film. Problems with scott kalverts film basketball diaries background. Several independent movies followed, including the basketball diaries 1995 and total eclipse 1995, which focused. In fact, his massive drug use destroys his dream of playing. This comprehensive lesson plan includes 30 daily lessons, 180 multiple choice questions, 20 essay questions, 20 fun activities, and more everything you need to teach the basketball diaries. The basketball diaries is an autobiographical account of high school basketball hero, jim carroll. The basketball diaries was almost made by columbia pictures in the late. The publication of jim carrolls diary, entitled the basketball diaries. Luckily for mark wahlberg, the basketball diaries director scott kalvert. Other articles where the basketball diaries is discussed. Killings said to have been inspired by leonardo dicaprio.
They walked towards the door to leave dressed in their school uniforms and when they got to the other side of the door, they were are dressed in street clothes. His thoughts on how the movie turned out aside, the release of the basketball diaries on april 21, 1995, put the source material back on the best seller listand led to a lot of renewed. Stephen lang was offered the role of jims basketball coach named swifty in the script. The basketball diaries 1995 jim prostitutes himself. Once his mother expelled him out of the house, he goes into the streets of new york. The basketball diaries 1995 is not initially about the sport itself, but the abuse of drug consumption.
Comingofage film centered on a teenager who sees his dream of becoming a basketball star threatened due to an addiction to heroin. The basketball diaries is a 1995 american biographical crime drama film directed by scott. While doing the press rounds for his upcoming effort the gambler, mark wahlberg looked back on his time making the 1995 biopic, the basketball diaries. Since dicaprios carroll dropped out of high school, though, he must endure watching his friend neutron play the game on tv. A highschool shooting claimed to have been inspired by a scene from leonardo dicaprio film the. The clip jim prostitutes himself from the basketball diaries 1995 ha ha ha. The movie became one of several subjects to a lawsuit filed shortly after the. Why leonardo dicaprio didnt want mark wahlberg in the. It chronicles his experiences growing up on the cold. In the basketball diaries, who was the nba player that jim carroll insults when he sees him play. A still of leonardo dicaprio in the basketball diaries from this weeks copycat killers on reelz. Once in a while he gets stoned with his friends, and step by step, he falls into the dark world of crime and drugs. Pressured by a wicked coach bruno kirby and a concerned mother lorraine.
The message here falls flat with it excellent cast barely saving the film from being just. Leonardo said, no way, im not making a movie with marky mark. Indeed, even though the movie quotes extensively from the printed version. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, jims life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind.
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