The read
Audiences rate it 27 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes46%
Metacritic46/100
Audiences rate it 27 points higher than critics do.
2,293 audience votes
Key crew
- Bryan GoluboffScreenplay
- Graeme RevellOriginal Music Composer
- Scott KalvertDirector
Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprioJim Carroll
- Bruno KirbySwifty
- Lorraine BraccoJim's Mother
- Ernie HudsonReggie
- Patrick McGawNeutron
- James MadioPedro
- Mark WahlbergMickey
- Barton HeymanConfessional Priest
- Roy CooperFather McNulty
- Michael ImperioliBobby
- Juliette LewisDiane Moody
- Manny AlfaroManny
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Themes
new york citysportsheroinaddictionbasketballfriendsbased on memoir or autobiographydrugs1960sschool suspensiongay themeteenager
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