The Basketball Diaries
Movie • 1995 • Biography
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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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Abuse
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A teacher attempts to sexually assault Jimmy, a priest spanks him with a paddle repeatedly
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The whole point of the movie
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Is there addiction?
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The main group of teenagers are drug addicts which is shown with great detail (basically the whole point of the movie)
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Jimmy is assaulted by a teacher and later an old man for cash to buy drugs.
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There is a prostitution scene in which an adult man gives an underage character a b*****b
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Mickey pushes someone off a 6 story building
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Does someone become unconscious?
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A character is thrown down the stairs and ends up unconscious. A character is unconscious in the snow, multiple times characters who are on drugs nod off in a state of semi-consciousness.
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Is someone tortured?
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At the start of the movie the main group of teenagers beat up their opposing basketball team
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Does someone break a bone?
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Yes, someone breaks their arm (you can hear the bone break, and see the arm bent a different way)
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Jimmy is pushed down the stairs for selling somebody bad dope
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Does a kid die?
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Bobby passes of cancer
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2 vomit scenes
1 - 4.20 (visual and audio)
2 - 39.47 (no visual, just audio)
1 - 4.20 (visual and audio)
2 - 39.47 (no visual, just audio)
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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When Reggie finds Jim at the basketball courts he had wet himself, you can kind of see the yellow in the snow. The next morning Jim asks why his notebook is wet and Reggie tell him he p****d on it”, Jim usually keeps the notebook in his back pocket
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Large-scale Violence
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Does someone have cancer?
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Jim's bestfriend has leukemia
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Jim's bestfriend has leukemia, so yeah there is a hospital scene
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Technically no but the main subject of the movie is drugs which is just slow suicide (to 'numb the pain')
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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a character holds a gun to his own head and says, jokingly, that “he’s going to do it”, it’s very brief
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Jim has a major panic attack when he can't do drugs
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Is there shakey cam?
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A bit when they run
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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When jim is kicked off the basketball team he calls the school 'faggot'
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Is there hate speech?
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Frequently call people ‘sp!cs’
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Sex
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Vehicular
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There is a fantasy sequence in which a character enters the classroom with a sniper gun and shoots multiple students and the teacher in slo-motion.
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