Review: The Basketball Diaries
Jim Carroll's cult book The Basketball Diaries, published in 1978, describes in grungy detail how the author passed in a few short months from ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert - 04/21/95
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Looking for Poetry In All the Wrong Places
The NY Times review of The Basketball Diaries, a Scott Kalvert film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Bruce "Bruno" Kirby, Jr.. ...
The New York Times - Janet Maslin - 04/21/95
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Review: The Basketball Diaries
Can an acting tour de force redeem a muddled movie? Check out Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries for a lesson in how it's done. ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Review: The Basketball Diaries
The best anti-drug movies are the ones that eschew sermons. Nothing turns off an audience faster than a film that becomes pedantic. ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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Review: The Basketball Diaries
The Basketball Diaries is a gritty film chronicling the adolescent years of poet/writer/musician Jim Carroll (played by Leonardo DiCaprio). ...
FilmCritic.com - Christopher Null
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Review: BASKETBALL DIARIES, THE
Jim Carroll's dreamy, pseudo-poetic memoir of a misspent New York boyhood -- standard equipment for alienated adolescents of the 90s -- is ...
TV Guide - Editorial Review
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Review: THE BASKETBALL DIARIES
The story is simple: Here's a kid in parochial high school--Jim Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio) he's bright, non-stop wise-ass, not too concerned ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - John Walker
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Review: The Basketball Diaries
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rec.arts.movies.reviews - eye WEEKLY - 04/21/95
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Review: THE BASKETBALL DIARIES
[Note: This film premiered at the South By Southwest Film Festival, Austin Texas, on Monday, 13 March, 1995. It opens in wide release this Friday, ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Steve Basile - 04/20/95
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Review: THE BASKETBALL DIARIES
All feature film directors who cut their teeth on music videos, please raise your hands. Thank you for identifying yourselves; now would you all ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Scott Renshaw - 04/24/95
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Review: THE BASKETBALL DIARIES
The motion picture camera just loves some people. Leonardo DiCaprio is one such person. Put him in a scene, any scene, and he becomes the center ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Raymond Johnston - 04/28/95
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Review: Basketball Diaries, The (1995)
Although historical examples and even some current events provide plenty of examples in which violent acts are inspired by various things, ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Dragan Antulov
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Review: THE BASKETBALL DIARIES
Lorraine Bracco, Ernie Hudson, Bruno Kirby, Juliette Lewis Director: Scott Kalvert Producers: Liz Heller and John Bard Manulis Screenplay: Bryan ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - berardinelli,james - 04/24/95
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Review: THE BASKETBALL DIARIES
Adapting Jim Carroll's unappetizing memoir of a Catholic-school boyhood gone very wrong was probably not a good idea; the book didn't have very ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Serdar Yegulalp - 04/24/95
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Review: THE BASKETBALL DIARIES
THE BASKETBALL DIARIES is a gritty new film chronicling the adolescent years of poet/writer/musician Jim Carroll (played by Leonardo DiCaprio). ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Christopher Null - 04/24/95
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Review: The Basketball Diaries (1995)
"The Basketball Diaries" is a lurid and uncompromising study of how drug addiction can destroy lives. The film has been ignored or underrated ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Brian Koller - 11/24/97
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Review: The Basketball Diaries
The best anti-drug movies are the ones that eschew sermons. Nothing turns off an audience faster than a film that becomes pedantic. ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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Review: The Basketball Diaries
This kitchen sink melodrama traces a fictionalized account of New York actor/writer/musician Jim Carroll's (Leonardo DiCaprio) coming of age. ...
Common Sense Media - David Gurney
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Review: BASKETBALL DIARIES, THE
Jim Carroll's dreamy, pseudo-poetic memoir of a misspent New York boyhood -- standard equipment for alienated adolescents of the 90s -- is ...
TV Guide - Editorial Review
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The Basketball Diaries Review
MatchFlick - Justin - 07/12/06
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The Basketball Diaries Review
Based on the real life diaries of Jim Carrol the amazing writer and poet who had his first book of poetry published at the age of 16 whilst deep ...
MatchFlick - Lisa - 03/21/07
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