Book, 1978 by Jim CarrollThe Basketball Diaries chronicles Jim Carroll's alternatively hilarious and horrifying urban coming-of-age from twelve to fifteen. The excerpts published in The Paris Review in the 1970s created a sensation-a response that continues to this day. Here is Carroll prowling the streets of New York-playing basketball, hustling, stealing, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure.
Movie, 1995 directed by Scott KalvertFeatures: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio and Mark Wahlberg
Tagline: Every punk on the block says it's not going to happen to them... but it does.
Did you know? The film was involved in a lawsuit pertaining to the Heath High School shooting.
Have you read the memoir or seen the movie?
