In a performance hailed by critics across the country, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, a high-school basketball hero headed for trouble. Teamed with his friends, Mickey (Mark Wahlberg), Neurtron and Pedro, Jim seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach (Bruno Kirby), his mom (Lorraine Bracco) and school begin to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart. The Basketball Diaries is a riveting story of one boy's life on the edge.
