The Basketball Diaries

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adapted by Matt Pelfrey from Jim Carroll's Basketball Diaries
Directed by Joe Tantalo

with Katherine Boynton, Deanna McGovern, Nick Paglino, Alex Pappas, Aaron Paternoster, John Porto, Mike Roche, Michael Shimkin, Arthur Solomon and Sam Whitten

In 1963 at age 12 - in the middle of the Cold War, the war in Vietnam, the race riots in New York City, and at a turning point in American Culture - Jim Carroll began writing his Basketball Diaries. Jim is an all-star basketball player at an Ivy League catholic school leading a double life, experimenting with drugs and getting hooked, hustling gay men to support a heroin addiction, and becoming a poet and future rock singer.