A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
The Basketball Diaries is of 1 hour(s) and 42 minute(s). It is Produced By: New Line Cinema, Island Pictures. It was released on 1995-04-21. It has the tagline: The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist. It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
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