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The Basketball Diaries
Crime, Drama
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to raw coming-of-age stories about addiction, damaged friendships, and the consequences of self-destruction.
- Tone
- bleak, melancholic, tense
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- addiction, adolescence, friendship, self-destruction, alienation
- Setting
- 1960s, urban neighborhoods and institutional spaces