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In New York City, teenager Jim Carroll and his friends Pedro, Mickey and Neutron get into trouble on the streets and at school. Jim plays basketball for his high school and keeps a journal of his poetry. His best friend, Bobby, is in the hospital with leukemia, and Jim visits him there. At basketball practice, Jim's coach, Swifty, sees Jim getting high in the locker room, gropes him and offers to pay him for sex; Jim forcefully declines. Jim's frustrations with school and his life grow, and he has an unhealthy appetite for heroin. At home, his mother's concern for her son grows.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Basketball Diaries (1995)
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- Activist Jack Thompson filed a $33 million lawsuit in 1999 blaming the film's dream sequence, alongside internet pornography sites and other media, for the real Heath High School shooting; the case was dismissed in 2001.
