The Basketball Diaries

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coming-of-age film drama film film

The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 coming-of-age drama film, based on Jim Carroll’s memoir, that follows a teenage basketball star’s descent into heroin addiction and crime.

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Label Occurrences
The Basketball Diaries canonical 27
The Basketball Diaries (memoir) 3
The Basketball Diaries (film) 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf coming-of-age film ⓘ
drama film ⓘ
film ⓘ
adaptationOf The Basketball Diaries self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: The Basketball Diaries (book)
authorOfSourceMaterial Jim Carroll ⓘ
basedOn The Basketball Diaries self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: The Basketball Diaries (memoir)
castMember Alexandra Adi ⓘ
Bruno Kirby ⓘ
Ernie Hudson ⓘ
James Madio ⓘ
Jim Carroll ⓘ
Juliette Lewis ⓘ
Leonardo DiCaprio ⓘ
Lorraine Bracco ⓘ
Mark Wahlberg ⓘ
Michael Imperioli ⓘ
Patrick McGaw ⓘ
Roy Cooper ⓘ
cinematographer David Phillips ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
director Scott Kalvert ⓘ
distributor New Line Cinema ⓘ
editor Bruce Green ⓘ
genre coming-of-age ⓘ
crime drama ⓘ
drama ⓘ
hasCultFollowing true ⓘ
mainCharacter Jim Carroll ⓘ
surface form: Jim Carroll (character)
MPAARating R ⓘ
musicBy Graeme Revell ⓘ
narrativeFocus heroin addiction ⓘ
high school basketball ⓘ
juvenile crime ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
portrayedBy Leonardo DiCaprio ⓘ
portrays Jim Carroll’s teenage years ⓘ
producer John Bard Manulis ⓘ
Liz Heller ⓘ
releaseDate 1995-04-21 ⓘ
releaseYear 1995 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes 102 ⓘ
screenwriter Bryan Goluboff ⓘ
setIn New York City ⓘ
theme crime and punishment ⓘ
drug abuse ⓘ
friendship ⓘ
loss of innocence ⓘ
urban youth ⓘ

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Leonardo DiCaprio → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
The Basketball Diaries → basedOn → The Basketball Diaries self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Basketball Diaries (memoir)
The Basketball Diaries → adaptationOf → The Basketball Diaries self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Basketball Diaries (book)
Jim Carroll → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Jim Carroll → authorOf → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Jim Carroll → subjectOf → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Basketball Diaries (film)
Jim Carroll → basedOn → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Basketball Diaries (film adaptation is based on his book)
Jim Carroll → knownFor → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Lorraine Bracco → appearedIn → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Gramercy Pictures → distributedFilm → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Scott Kalvert → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Scott Kalvert → directed → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Michael Imperioli → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
James Dennis Carroll → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
James Dennis Carroll → hasPart → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Basketball Diaries (diary entries)
James Dennis Carroll → workAdaptedAs → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Basketball Diaries (1995 film)
Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971–1973 → follows → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Catholic Boy → basedOn → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
John Bard Manulis → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Bruce Green → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Bruce Green → editedFilm → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Bruno Kirby → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Patrick McGaw → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Patrick McGaw → appearedIn → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Roy Cooper → knownFor → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Roy Cooper → appearedIn → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Ernie Hudson → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
James Madio → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
James Madio → characterInWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
David Phillips → knownFor → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
David Phillips → workedOn → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
David Phillips → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Bryan Goluboff → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Basketball Diaries (film)
Bryan Goluboff → workBasedOn → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Basketball Diaries (memoir)
Liz Heller → notableWork → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
Liz Heller → basedOn → The Basketball Diaries ⓘ
subject surface form: The Basketball Diaries
this entity surface form: The Basketball Diaries (memoir)