In a performance hailed by critics across the country, Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic/What's Eating Gilbert Grape) stars as Jim Carroll, a high school basketball hero headed for trouble. Teamed with his friends, Micky (Mark Wahlberg of Boogie Nights), Neutron and Pedro, Jim seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach (Bruno Kirby), his mom (Lorraine Bracco) and school begin to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart. The Basketball Diaries is a riveting story of one boy's life on the edge.
Synopsis: Based on the journals of poet Jim Carroll, this downbeat coming-of-age drama follows the life of a promising NYC Catholic schoolboy who turns to drug abuse and street hustling after being expelled from school.