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* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Before the first basketball game shown in the film, Swifty apparently walks in on someone masturbating and reminds them that that's not allowed before games.
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** Before the first basketball game shown in the film, Swifty apparently walks in on someone masturbating and reminds them that that's not allowed before games.
** In one scene at night, Jim sneaks to the top of a building so he can masturbate in the nude.
** Before the first basketball game shown in the film, Swifty apparently walks in on someone masturbating and reminds them that that's not allowed before games.
** In one scene at night, Jim sneaks to the top of a building so he can masturbate in the nude.
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* DrugsCausingSlowMotion: A drug-induced DreamSequence where Jim shoots up the school features him talking in slow-motion.
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''The Basketball Diaries'' is a 1995 biographical crime drama film directed by Scott Kalvert and [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the memoir of the same name]] by Jim Carroll. The film features a rather star-studded cast, including an early starring role for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Carroll, with Creator/MarkWahlberg, Creator/JulietteLewis, James Madio, Michael Imperioli (from ''Series/TheSopranos'') and Creator/ErnieHudson among the supporting actors.
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''The Basketball Diaries'' is a 1995 biographical crime drama film directed by Scott Kalvert and [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the memoir of the same name]] by Jim Carroll. The film features a rather star-studded cast, including an early starring role for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Carroll, with Creator/MarkWahlberg, Creator/JulietteLewis, James Madio, Michael Imperioli (from ''Series/TheSopranos'') Creator/MichaelImperioli and Creator/ErnieHudson among the supporting actors.
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* RaisedCatholic: The start and first half the film heavily reflect the Catholicism religion in relation to Jim and his friends.
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''The Basketball Diaries'' is a 1995 drama film directed by Scott Kalvert and [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the memoir of the same name]] by Jim Carroll.
The film depicts Carroll's life growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity as a 16-year-old with his group of best friends. Mostly being hoodlums and delinquents already, Jim gets introduced to drugs and eventually gets kicked out of high school as he starts to spiral down. He quickly finds himself estranged from his friends, begging his mother for money, and living on the streets offering himself up at times just to score more drugs. By the end, he manages to start regaining control of his life upon meeting a man named Reggie, who helps him through his withdrawals and leads Jim back from the brink of death.
Features a rather star-studded cast, including early roles for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Jim Carroll, Creator/MarkWahlberg as Mickey, Creator/JulietteLewis as Diane Moody, James Madio as Pedro, and Michael Imperioli (from ''Series/TheSopranos'') as Bobby. Also included Creator/ErnieHudson as Reggie.
The film depicts Carroll's life growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity as a 16-year-old with his group of best friends. Mostly being hoodlums and delinquents already, Jim gets introduced to drugs and eventually gets kicked out of high school as he starts to spiral down. He quickly finds himself estranged from his friends, begging his mother for money, and living on the streets offering himself up at times just to score more drugs. By the end, he manages to start regaining control of his life upon meeting a man named Reggie, who helps him through his withdrawals and leads Jim back from the brink of death.
Features a rather star-studded cast, including early roles for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Jim Carroll, Creator/MarkWahlberg as Mickey, Creator/JulietteLewis as Diane Moody, James Madio as Pedro, and Michael Imperioli (from ''Series/TheSopranos'') as Bobby. Also included Creator/ErnieHudson as Reggie.
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''The Basketball Diaries'' is a 1995 biographical crime drama film directed by Scott Kalvert and [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the memoir of the same name]] by Jim Carroll.
Carroll. The film features a rather star-studded cast, including an early starring role for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Carroll, with Creator/MarkWahlberg, Creator/JulietteLewis, James Madio, Michael Imperioli (from ''Series/TheSopranos'') and Creator/ErnieHudson among the supporting actors.
The film depicts Carroll's life growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity as a 16-year-old with his group of bestfriends. Mostly friends, mostly being hoodlums and delinquents already, already. Jim gets introduced to drugs and eventually gets kicked out of high school as he starts to spiral down. out of control. He quickly finds himself estranged from his friends, begging his mother for money, and living on the streets streets, even offering himself up at times just to score more drugs. By the end, he manages to start regaining control of get his life upon meeting a man named Reggie, who helps him through his withdrawals and leads Jim back from next score.
On the brink ofdeath.
Featuresdeath, a rather star-studded cast, including early roles for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Jim Carroll, Creator/MarkWahlberg as Mickey, Creator/JulietteLewis as Diane Moody, James Madio as Pedro, and Michael Imperioli (from ''Series/TheSopranos'') as Bobby. Also included Creator/ErnieHudson as Reggie.
chance encounter ends up altering the course of his life...
The film depicts Carroll's life growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity as a 16-year-old with his group of best
On the brink of
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* KarmaHoudini: Zigzagged with basketball coach Swifty trying to sexually molest Jim in the shower. While Jim does slam his face into the wall and then takes the money offered for sex (and silence), Swifty doesn't suffer any other consequences.
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* EpicFail: Mickey and Jim trying to play in a game on drugs..the ''wrong'' drugs, in fact (they had an extended discussion on which pills were the uppers, since the supplier Pedro never found out, and ended up brashly taking the blacks when they were implied to be the pinks). They move so sluggishly and play so horrendously that it's pretty funny to watch, such as when Mickey gets hit in the face with the ball and promptly falls to the floor.
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* EpicFail: Mickey and Jim trying to play in a game on drugs..drugs... the ''wrong'' drugs, in fact (they had an extended discussion on which pills were the uppers, since the supplier Pedro never found out, and ended up brashly taking the blacks when they were implied to be the pinks). They move so sluggishly and play so horrendously that it's pretty funny to watch, such as when Mickey gets hit in the face with the ball and promptly falls to the floor.
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Features a rather star-studded cast, including early roles for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Jim Carroll, Creator/MarkWahlberg as Mickey, Creator/JulietteLewis as Diane Moody, James Madio as Pedro, and [[Series/TheSopranos Michael Imperioli]] as Bobby. Also included Creator/ErnieHudson as Reggie.
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Features a rather star-studded cast, including early roles for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Jim Carroll, Creator/MarkWahlberg as Mickey, Creator/JulietteLewis as Diane Moody, James Madio as Pedro, and [[Series/TheSopranos Michael Imperioli]] Imperioli (from ''Series/TheSopranos'') as Bobby. Also included Creator/ErnieHudson as Reggie.
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* BadassLongcoat: Jim, during his dream of shooting.
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* GoingColdTurkey: [[spoiler:Jim. With Reggie first, but it fails, then in jail]].
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: Mickey, on Jim and Pedro.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Teenagers taking drugs and being violent.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Teenagers taking drugs and being violent.
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->''"You know what's wrong. It used to be about getting high and playing basketball. But now, it's just about getting high with you. You're blowing it, Jim."
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->''"You know what's wrong. It used to be about getting high and playing basketball. But now, it's just about getting high with you. You're blowing it, Jim.""''
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getting high with you. You're blowing it, Jim."
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->''"You know what's wrong. It used to be about getting high and playing basketball. But now, it's just about
getting high with you. You're blowing it, Jim."
-->-- '''Neutron'''
getting high with you. You're blowing it, Jim."
-->-- '''Neutron'''
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* BigNo: Jim lets out one as [[spoiler:Mickey accidentally pushes someone who ripped off the two of them (in terms of drugs) off the top of a building]].
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* BigNo: Jim lets out one as [[spoiler:Mickey accidentally pushes someone who ripped off the two of them (in terms of drugs) off the top of a building]].
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''The Basketball Diaries'' is a 1995 film [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the book of the same name by Jim Carroll]], it depicts Jim's life growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity as a 16-year-old with his group of best friends. Mostly being hoodlums and delinquents already, Jim gets introduced to drugs and eventually gets kicked out of high school as he starts to spiral down. He quickly finds himself estranged from his friends, begging his mother for money, and living on the streets offering himself up at times just to score more drugs. By the end, he manages to start regaining control of his life upon meeting a man named Reggie, who helps him through his withdrawals and leads Jim back from the brink of death.
Features a rather star studded cast including early roles for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Jim Carroll, Creator/MarkWahlberg as Mickey, Creator/JulietteLewis as Diane Moody, James Madio as Pedro, and [[Series/TheSopranos Michael Imperioli]] as Bobby. Also included Creator/ErnieHudson as Reggie.
Features a rather star studded cast including early roles for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Jim Carroll, Creator/MarkWahlberg as Mickey, Creator/JulietteLewis as Diane Moody, James Madio as Pedro, and [[Series/TheSopranos Michael Imperioli]] as Bobby. Also included Creator/ErnieHudson as Reggie.
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''The Basketball Diaries'' is a 1995 drama film directed by Scott Kalvert and [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the book memoir of the same name name]] by Jim Carroll]], it Carroll.
The film depictsJim's Carroll's life growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity as a 16-year-old with his group of best friends. Mostly being hoodlums and delinquents already, Jim gets introduced to drugs and eventually gets kicked out of high school as he starts to spiral down. He quickly finds himself estranged from his friends, begging his mother for money, and living on the streets offering himself up at times just to score more drugs. By the end, he manages to start regaining control of his life upon meeting a man named Reggie, who helps him through his withdrawals and leads Jim back from the brink of death.
Features a ratherstar studded cast star-studded cast, including early roles for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as Jim Carroll, Creator/MarkWahlberg as Mickey, Creator/JulietteLewis as Diane Moody, James Madio as Pedro, and [[Series/TheSopranos Michael Imperioli]] as Bobby. Also included Creator/ErnieHudson as Reggie.
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* FourthWallPsych: The final scene is initially angled to seem as if Jim is directly speaking to the audience about how DrugsAreBad, but the camera gradually turns and reveals that he's actually speaking to a crowd.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The final scene is initially angled to seem as if Jim is directly speaking to the audience about how DrugsAreBad, but the camera gradually turns and reveals that he's actually speaking to a crowd.
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* BlondesAreEvil: It's a blond woman who not only introduces Jim to drugs but takes his virginity as well in the same scene.
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* CensorShadow: In the scene where Jim masturbates naked on top of a building, most of his body is obscured by the darkness, but we do see his right arm...''moving''.
* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** Before the first basketball game shown in the film, Swifty apparently walks in on someone masturbating and reminds them that that's not allowed before games.
** In one scene at night, Jim sneaks to the top of a building so he can masturbate in the nude.
** Before the first basketball game shown in the film, Swifty apparently walks in on someone masturbating and reminds them that that's not allowed before games.
** In one scene at night, Jim sneaks to the top of a building so he can masturbate in the nude.
* EpicFail: Mickey and Jim trying to play in a game on drugs..the ''wrong'' drugs, in fact (they had an extended discussion on which pills were the uppers, since the supplier Pedro never found out, and ended up brashly taking the blacks when they were implied to be the pinks). They move so sluggishly and play so horrendously that it's pretty funny to watch, such as when Mickey gets hit in the face with the ball and promptly falls to the floor.
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* NightmareSequence: While [[spoiler:receiving fellatio from another man]], Jim hallucinates his basketball coach Swifty seeing him and laughing.
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* NightmareSequence: NightmareSequence [=/=] MushroomSamba: While [[spoiler:receiving fellatio from another man]], Jim hallucinates his basketball coach Swifty seeing him and laughing.
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* TheReliableOne: Jim. He's the peacekeeper in many scenarios, stopping Mickey from attacking Pedro when he insults Mickey's mom, and chasing Mickey as he's chasing someone who ripped them off, trying to get him to stop.
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* StockScreams: The Howie scream is heard as [[spoiler:Mickey pushes someone who rips him and Jim off with bad-quality drugs off the top of a building]].
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* WhamShot: As a well-dressed and crestfallen Jim walks to the altar of an otherwise-empty church, there's a shot of [[spoiler:Bobby's head visibly sticking out of a coffin]].
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* FauxlosophicNarrator: Jim. Then again, he ''is'' into poetry and writing in general.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:While holding a man at gunpoint on the top of a building, Mickey accidentally pushes him off the edge]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Jim, played by the very handsome Leonardo [=DiCaprio=], does have his face genuinely bloodied and disfigured at some points from drugs and getting beaten.
* BittersweetEnding: Perhaps more on the sweet side. [[spoiler:Jim does get his life back on track, but only after serving 6 months in incarceration once he hits the bottom of his downward spiral. Pedro is still into drugs but is on amicable terms with Jim, while Mickey has a sentence of 5-15 years to do from his AccidentalMurder. In the end, only one out of the three ''really'' learned their lesson]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Jim, played by the very handsome Leonardo [=DiCaprio=], does have his face genuinely bloodied and disfigured at some points from drugs and getting beaten.
* BittersweetEnding: Perhaps more on the sweet side. [[spoiler:Jim does get his life back on track, but only after serving 6 months in incarceration once he hits the bottom of his downward spiral. Pedro is still into drugs but is on amicable terms with Jim, while Mickey has a sentence of 5-15 years to do from his AccidentalMurder. In the end, only one out of the three ''really'' learned their lesson]].
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* BigNo: Jim lets out one as [[spoiler:Mickey accidentally pushes someone who ripped off the two of them (in terms of drugs) off the top of a building]].
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* EtTuBrute:
** Neutron abandoning Mickey and Jim as they get kicked from school and the basketball team, instead choosing to continue a successful career as a basketball player. To rub salt in the wound, Mickey and Jim walk into a bar just as Neutron happens to be on TV in an all-star game.
** When Mickey, Jim, and Pedro rob a candy store, [[spoiler:Pedro is so loopy from drugs that he can't respond properly, which leads to Mickey booking it outright, and Jim only following suit when he sees cops coming]].
* FauxlosophicNarrator: Jim. Then again, he ''is'' into poetry and writing in general.
** Neutron abandoning Mickey and Jim as they get kicked from school and the basketball team, instead choosing to continue a successful career as a basketball player. To rub salt in the wound, Mickey and Jim walk into a bar just as Neutron happens to be on TV in an all-star game.
** When Mickey, Jim, and Pedro rob a candy store, [[spoiler:Pedro is so loopy from drugs that he can't respond properly, which leads to Mickey booking it outright, and Jim only following suit when he sees cops coming]].
* FauxlosophicNarrator: Jim. Then again, he ''is'' into poetry and writing in general.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The final scene is initially angled to seem as if Jim is directly speaking to the audience about how DrugsAreBad, but the camera gradually turns and reveals that he's actually speaking to a crowd.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: It's very clear that [[spoiler:Mickey killing a man near the end]] was an accident, judging by his shocked reaction when [[spoiler:the man falls off the building]] and his fully taking in what just happened afterwards.
* NightmareSequence: While [[spoiler:receiving fellatio from another man]], Jim hallucinates his basketball coach Swifty seeing him and laughing.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: It's very clear that [[spoiler:Mickey killing a man near the end]] was an accident, judging by his shocked reaction when [[spoiler:the man falls off the building]] and his fully taking in what just happened afterwards.
* NightmareSequence: While [[spoiler:receiving fellatio from another man]], Jim hallucinates his basketball coach Swifty seeing him and laughing.
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* TheReliableOne: Jim. He's the peacekeeper in many scenarios, stopping Mickey from attacking Pedro when he insults Mickey's mom, and chasing Mickey as he's chasing someone who ripped them off, trying to get him to stop.
* SickeningCrunch: Mickey ends up getting his arm broken.
* StockScreams: The Howie scream is heard as [[spoiler:Mickey pushes someone who rips him and Jim off with bad-quality drugs off the top of a building]].
* SickeningCrunch: Mickey ends up getting his arm broken.
* StockScreams: The Howie scream is heard as [[spoiler:Mickey pushes someone who rips him and Jim off with bad-quality drugs off the top of a building]].
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''The Basketball Diaries'' is a 1995 film [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the book of the same name by Jim Carroll]], it depicts Jim's life growing up in [[NewYorkCity New York City]] as a 16-year-old with his group of best friends. Mostly being hoodlums and delinquents already, Jim gets introduced to drugs and eventually gets kicked out of high school as he starts to spiral down. He quickly finds himself estranged from his friends, begging his mother for money, and living on the streets offering himself up at times just to score more drugs. By the end, he manages to start regaining control of his life upon meeting a man named Reggie, who helps him through his withdrawals and leads Jim back from the brink of death.
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''The Basketball Diaries'' is a 1995 film [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the book of the same name by Jim Carroll]], it depicts Jim's life growing up in [[NewYorkCity New York City]] UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity as a 16-year-old with his group of best friends. Mostly being hoodlums and delinquents already, Jim gets introduced to drugs and eventually gets kicked out of high school as he starts to spiral down. He quickly finds himself estranged from his friends, begging his mother for money, and living on the streets offering himself up at times just to score more drugs. By the end, he manages to start regaining control of his life upon meeting a man named Reggie, who helps him through his withdrawals and leads Jim back from the brink of death.
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A 1995 film [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the book of the same name by Jim Carroll]], it depicts Jim's life growing up in [[NewYorkCity New York City]] as a 16-year-old with his group of best friends. Mostly being hoodlums and delinquents already, Jim gets introduced to drugs and eventually gets kicked out of high school as he starts to spiral down. He quickly finds himself estranged from his friends, begging his mother for money, and living on the streets offering himself up at times just to score more drugs. By the end, he manages to start regaining control of his life upon meeting a man named Reggie, who helps him through his withdrawals and leads Jim back from the brink of death.
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''The Basketball Diaries'' is a 1995 film [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the book of the same name by Jim Carroll]], it depicts Jim's life growing up in [[NewYorkCity New York City]] as a 16-year-old with his group of best friends. Mostly being hoodlums and delinquents already, Jim gets introduced to drugs and eventually gets kicked out of high school as he starts to spiral down. He quickly finds himself estranged from his friends, begging his mother for money, and living on the streets offering himself up at times just to score more drugs. By the end, he manages to start regaining control of his life upon meeting a man named Reggie, who helps him through his withdrawals and leads Jim back from the brink of death.
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* DescentIntoAdiction: Jim becomes addicted to cocaine and heroin over the course of the film.
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* DescentIntoAdiction: Jim becomes addicted to cocaine and heroin over the course of the film.