The basketball diaries
By: a New Line Cinema release, Island Pictures presents a Liz Heller production
Contributors: Manulis, John Bard, producer; Goluboff, Bryan, scenarist; DiCaprio, Leonardo, actor; Kirby, Bruno, 1949-2006, actor; Bracco, Lorraine, 1955- actor; Hudson, Ernie, actor; McGaw, Patrick, actor; Madio, James, actor; Wahlberg, Mark, 1971- actor; Revell, Graeme, composer; Carroll, Jim, 1950-2009; New Line Cinema Corporation; Island Pictures; Orion Pictures
Edition: Widescreen version.
Publisher: Orion Pictures Corp.; Distributed by Palm Pictures
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Drama; High school athletes; Basketball players
Description: Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart.
Notes: Based on the novel by Jim Carroll.

Title from disc surface.

Special features: digitally remastered, Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound, interactive menus, interviews, SDH and scene index.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.

Music, Graeme Revell ; production designer, Christopher Nowak ; editor, Dana Congdon ; director of photography, David Phillips ; executive producers, Chris Blackwell, Dan Genetti ; screenplay, Bryan Goluboff ; producers, Liz Heller, John Bard Manulis ; director, Scott Kalvert.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Ernie Hudson, Patrick McGaw, James Madio, Mark Wahlberg.

DVD format.

In English, SDH (Subtitles for the Deaf & hard of Hearing).

Closed-captioned.