the basketball diaries

kind of an old movie ... 1995 ... it's based on a true story ... the autobiography of some guy called jim carroll ... dicaprio plays the role of jim in the movie ... jim is a teenager at a catholic school ... he's on the basketball team ... lives with his mother ... and he hangs out with a bad crowd ... so he's got some problems ... but then he gets addicted to heroin ... and that's when things get really bad ... and so the movie follows him on his downward spiral ... although he does finally kick the habit at the end ... but despite the happy ending ... this is a very dark movie ... as one would expect a movie about heroin addiction to be ... i would have given it a lower score if it wasn't for dicaprio's superb acting ... 6.5/10 ...