Basketball Diaries

Based on the real-life story of Jim Carroll, played here by Leonardo DiCaprio, Scott Kalvert's film shows how a promising athletic career on the basketball court can be wrecked by heroin. Carroll kept diaries chronicling his slow fall from grace, and DiCaprio captures exactly the ups and downs of a drug addict without descending into pathos or bathos. A quietly stylish film that shows there is redemption for even the most fallen.

• STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio
• UPC: 660200310028
• GENRE: Drama, Biography
• RELEASE DATE: 6/30/1998
• PRODUCT ID: PLMS03100DVD
• ORIGINAL YEAR: 1995
• DISTRIBUTOR/STUDIO: Palm Pictures / Umvd