I'm aware that almost any story about drug addiction will end up sounding like an episode of E! True Hollywood Stories. But Basketball Diaries is just chalk full of tired cliches. The acting is really good top to bottom but the writing is sloppy.
This review of The Basketball Diaries (1995) was written by Paul P on 17 Dec 2011.
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