The Basketball Diaries

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Coming-of-age film centered on a teenager who sees his dream of becoming a basketball star threatened due to an addiction to heroin.

The film is adapted from a memoir of the same name by Jim Carroll. Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Carroll in the film.

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Leonardo DiCaprio, 49

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