1995 · drama · crime · coming-of-age
The Basketball Diaries
Directed by Scott Kalvert1h 42m1995
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Our read: The Basketball Diaries (1995) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · crime · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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