SYNOPSIS

A member of the top high school basketball team in New York City falls prey to the lure of the streets- more specifically heroin- in this coming-of-age drama. Pre-superstardom Leonardo DiCaprio gives a strong performance in this gritty and interesting, if rather unfaithful, adaptation of writer/poet Jim Carroll’s captivating teenage memoirs of being young and streetwise.


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

November 24, 1995

DIRECTOR

Scott Kalvert

WRITER

Jim Carroll (novel) & Bryan Goluboff (screenplay)

COMPANY

New Line Cinema

GENRE

Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport

CERT

18

RUNTIME

102 minutes

IMAGES