The Basketball Diaries (1995)
"The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist."
Critics Score
🎬 46%
(RT: 46%, MC: 46) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
James Madio as Pedro
Patrick McGaw as Neutron
Is The Basketball Diaries good?
Yes. 96% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 46%, but audiences disagreed.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction. Wikipedia ↗
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