Critic Reviews
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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
For those few soul-freezing moments, you get a glimpse of the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Significantly, the movie keeps the hero's reformation offscreen as well as unexplained; it's more interested in shock effects than in candor or elucidation.
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Janet Maslin, New York Times
The star shines, but the movie is hard to watch.
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Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
You leave The Basketball Diaries believing that Leonardo DiCaprio can do anything.
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Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Although it masquerades as a cautionary tale about the horrors of heroin, this epic of teen-age angst is more accurately seen as a reverential wallow in the gutter of self-absorption.
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Cast
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Jimmy Papirisas Iggy -
Leonardo DiCaprioas Jim Carroll -
Nick Gaetanias Referee
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Bruno Kirbyas Swifty -
Alexander Gabermanas Bobo -
Lorraine Braccoas Jim's Mother
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