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| Genres: |
Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport |
| Countries: |
USA |
| Actors: |
DiCaprio, Leonardo | Bracco, Lorraine | Sokol, Marilyn | Madio, James | McGaw, Patrick | Wahlberg, Mark | Cooper, Roy | Kirby, Bruno | Papiris, Jimmy | Gaetani, Nick | Chaplin, Alexander | Jorgensen, Ben | Mostel, Josh | Lewis, Juliette | Imperioli, Michael |
| Directors: |
Kalvert, Scott |
| Download: |
DivX iPod |
Film adjustment of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopical free fall into the torturesome world of drug addiction. As a member of a ostensibly invincible high school basketball game squad, Jim’s life centers around the hoops court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach (”Swifty”) who takes unaccepted liberties with the boys on his team, adolescent sexual angst, and an insalubrious appetence for heroin — all of these begin to entrench on young Jim’s dream of decorous a basketball game star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s climb business concern for her son. He can’t go home and his only escape from the realism of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older region friend with whom Jim “picked up a game” now and then, is he able to begin the long journeying back to sanity.
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