🎬 on Instagram: "Dreams, addiction, and the descent into darkness — The Basketball Diaries is a raw, haunting portrait of youth gone off the rails, where talent meets temptation and innocence shatters fast. 🏀💊 🎬 The Basketball Diaries (1995) Directed by Scott Kalvert and based on Jim Carroll’s autobiographical novel, the film stars a young Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll, a gifted high school basketball player in New York City whose promising future unravels as he spirals into drug addictio