The basketball diaries

DVD 1998

Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart.

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Basketball players Drama

High school athletes Drama

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Description:

1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
stereo
Dolby
video file
DVD video

Target Audience Note:

MPAA: R
CHVR: Not rated

Other Title:

Baseball diaries (Motion picture)

Notes:

Special features: Interviews
Based on the autobiographical novel by Jim Carroll
Originally released as a motion picture in 1995
Music, Graeme Revell ; production designer, Christopher Nowak ; editor, Dana Congdon ; director of photography, David Phillips
Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Ernie Hudson, Patrick McGaw, James Madio, Mark Wahlberg
DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby digital
English dialogue with optional English subtitles

Control Number:

956123

UPC:

660200310028

Other Authors:

Bracco, Lorraine, 1955-
Carroll, Jim. Basketball diaries
DiCaprio, Leonardo
Hudson, Ernie
Island Pictures
Kalvert, Scott
Kirby, Bruno, 1949-2006
Madio, James
McGaw, Patrick
New Line Cinema Corporation
Palm Pictures
Wahlberg, Mark, 1971-

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