We can't tell if this is supposed to be genuine testimony or a performance. Ebert remarked: "At the end, Jim is seen going in through a 'stage door' and then we hear him telling the story of his descent and recovery. Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four.
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The websites critical consensus states "In spite of its young leading man's heroic efforts to hold it all together, a muddled message prevents The Basketball Diaries from compelling as a cautionary tale." Metacritic gave the movie a score of 46 based in 19 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 46% based on 41 reviews and with an average rating of 5.3/10. Jim recites his work before an audience and receives applause. Pedro offers him a bag of drugs, which Jim refuses. He encounters Pedro, who has been released from reform school. Jim approaches a stage door to give a poetry reading. Jim is arrested, convicted, and sentenced to six months' incarceration at Rikers Island for assault, robbery, resisting arrest, and possession of narcotics and spends the time in jail getting clean. After escaping, with nowhere else to go, Jim goes to his mother's apartment and she reports him to the police. Mickey tries to escape, but is beaten by a gang and then arrested he is later tried as an adult and convicted. He accidentally pushes him off the roof to his death. Enraged, Mickey corners the dealer on the roof of an apartment building. Later, Jim and Mickey buy heroin, but discover that the dealer ripped them off. Jim's friend Reggie, who sympathizes with Jim over his predicament having since been in a similar situation, finds him, takes him to his apartment, and forces him to detox, but Jim relapses.īack on the street, Jim is desperate for drugs and resorts to prostituting himself at a public restroom. Jim continues a desperate life of shady dealings and getting high with Mickey, and by the coming winter, passes out in the snow high on heroin. Hearing sirens, Jim and Mickey escape, but Pedro, too high and hungover to realize the situation, is left behind and arrested. Mickey finds a gun in the cash register and takes it. Jim, Mickey, and Pedro from then on only live for their next score as homeless addicts one later excursion has them break into a candy shop for money. Jim's mother exiles him from the house after exposing his stash of drugs.
Jim and Mickey, in response, resign from the team and drop out of school, while Neutron stays. A teacher who notices the boys engaging in drug use tells Jim and Mickey that they are suspended for a week, and Swifty tells Jim that he is now banned from playing basketball for his school again. The pills are downers, and they cause the boys to perform disastrously during the game. Neutron refuses the pills and confronts Jim about his growing habit. The next day, before a game, Jim, Pedro, and Mickey take pills from Pedro's hat, hoping they are uppers. As Jim's frustrations with school and life grow over time, he imagines shooting his classmates. Jim refuses and pushes Swifty headfirst into a wall. Depressed over Bobby's death, Jim begins to use heroin.Īt basketball practice, Jim's coach Swifty sees Jim in the bathroom showers when he takes a short break to get high, where he then gropes him, and offers to pay him for sex. Following the funeral, Jim and his friends go to the basketball court and reminisce about Bobby's life.
Later, after a trip to a strip show cut short by an annoyed Bobby, Bobby dies, and Jim and his friends attend his funeral. Jim's best friend, Bobby, is dying of leukemia Jim frequently visits him in the hospital. Outside of basketball, he shows an artistic interest in writing, keeping his work in his journal, expressing his thoughts and creating poetry. Teenager Jim Carroll is a drug-addicted high school basketball player who regularly gets into mischief with his friends Pedro, Mickey and Neutron on the streets of New York City and at school.
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