The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Directed by Scott Kalvert
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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Bringing Carroll's '60s it-happened-to-me saga into the '90s, director Scott Kalvert, who cut his teeth on Marky Mark videos, bites off raw chunks of "Rebel Without a Cause," "West Side Story," "Saturday Night Fever" and other alienated-teen flicks, and splices them together with luridly "realistic," Tarantinoesque touches�lots of messy violence and drug use.
Bringing Carroll's '60s it-happened-to-me saga into the '90s, director Scott Kalvert, who cut his teeth on Marky Mark videos, bites off raw chunks of "Rebel Without a Cause," "West Side Story," "Saturday Night Fever" and other alienated-teen flicks, and splices them together with luridly "realistic," Tarantinoesque touches�lots of messy violence and drug use.
Bringing Carroll's '60s it-happened-to-me saga into the '90s, director Scott Kalvert, who cut his teeth on Marky Mark videos, bites off raw chunks of "Rebel Without a Cause," "West Side Story," "Saturday Night Fever" and other alienated-teen flicks, and splices them together with luridly "realistic," Tarantinoesque touches�lots of messy violence and drug use.