The Basketball Diaries (1995)

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" Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. With Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and Mark Wahlberg delivering a early performance, in the film as well. While not going well with critics, they did feel that DiCaprio’s performance was considerably star making. The film became controversial in the aftermath of the 1997 Heath High School shooting and the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. Critics noted sim"

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"I have five or so other flicks to add to this list but I'm on the opening scene of a movie so I want to put my attention on that and not organising this list. This film reminds me a bit of the almost 10 minute song 'Dance With The Devil'. The first time I heard it I was about to head over to my schools computer room to take my first science exam. I envisioned many scenes in the song to take place in the same areas where this film was shot, and I really did feel something more powerful. Eventuall"

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"Mickey"

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" Directed by: Scott Kalvert Produced by: Chris Blackwell, Dan Genetti, and Liz Heller Written by: Bryan Goluboff Based on the book by: Jim Carroll Cinematography: David Phillips Edited by: Dana Congdon Music by: Graeme Revell Distributed by: Island Pictures"

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"Jim Carroll"

The Most Fucked Up Characters In Films (53 movies items)

"Jim Carroll. "Idle time is the devil's play thing." "I just wanna be pure." "It's a Saturday night thing when you feel cool like a gangster or a rockstar, just something to kill the boredom, you know? They call it a chippie, a small habit. It feels so good, you start doing it on Tuesdays... then Thursdays... then it's got you. Every wise ass punk on the block says it won't happen to them, but it does." "And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, "

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“A día de hoy siento que la película no ha envejecido muy bien que digamos, para el momento en el que salió la sociedad tenía otra percepción sobre las drogas a la que se tiene ahora y durante el largometraje eso se nota BASTANTE. Sin embargo y tomando en cuenta los pocos recursos que se tenían, hay varias escenas aún pueden llegar a ser muy impactantes para un público joven e inocente y aunque el guión no sea una maravilla la actuación de un inexperto Leonardo DiCaprio destaca muchísimo.” read more