The Basketball Diaries
Movie • 1995 • Biography
ReportFilm adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
This movie contains 25 potentially triggering events.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there domestic violence?
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A teacher attempts to sexually assault Jimmy, a priest spanks him with a paddle repeatedly
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Addiction
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Nylah_jp
The whole point of the movie
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Is there addiction?
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Nylah_jp
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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Is there pedophilia?
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purpleunicorn
Yes. Two obviously overage women hit on Jim and his friend in their apartment
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Jimmy is assaulted by a teacher and later an old man for cash to buy drugs.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Anonymous1313
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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Does someone break a bone?
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Nylah_jp
Yes, someone breaks their arm (you can hear the bone break, and see the arm bent a different way)
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Is someone tortured?
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Nylah_jp
At the start of the movie the main group of teenagers beat up their opposing basketball team
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Anxious.izzy
Jimmy is pushed down the stairs for selling somebody bad dope
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Nylah_jp
Mickey pushes someone off a 6 story building
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Does a kid die?
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Nylah_jp
Jim's best friend died of cancer (assuming he is a child a s jim himself is only 13)
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Kelz777
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 “pissed on it”, Jim usually keeps the notebook in his back pocket
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Does someone vomit?
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Nylah_jp
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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Is there a hospital scene?
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Nylah_jp
Jim's bestfriend has leukemia, so yeah there is a hospital scene
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Does someone have cancer?
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Nylah_jp
Jim's bestfriend has leukemia
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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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127saturn
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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Nylah_jp
Jim has a major panic attack when he can't do drugs
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
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A bit when they run
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Paranoia
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Nylah_jp
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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Kelz777
Frequently call people ‘sp!cs’
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Bittersweet
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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No but they almost crash several times due to driving under the influence
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In the school shooting scene blood splatters
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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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