The Basketball Diaries - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "The Basketball Diaries"
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Timing:
1:42 (102 min)
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Actors and characters
Patrick McGaw
Character Neutron
Barton Heyman
Character Confessional Priest
Roy Cooper
Character Father McNulty
Manny Alfaro
Character Manny
Marilyn Sokol
Character Chanting Woman
Ben Jorgensen
Character Tommy
Jimmy Papiris
Character Iggy
Nick Gaetani
Character Referee #1
Lawrence Barth
Character Referee #2
Akiko Ashley
Character Stripper
Eric Betts
Character Drug Dealer #1
Joyce R. Korbin
Character Mugging Victim
Gary Iorio
Character Policeman
William Webb
Character JuJu Johnson
John C. Vennema
Character Mr. Rubin
Doc Dougherty
Character Policeman
Alex Ballar
Character Basketball Player (uncredited)
Anthony DiMaria
Character Pool Hall Shark (uncredited)
Patrick Coleman Duncan
Character Student (uncredited)
Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas
Character Patron (uncredited)
Kate Miller
Character Girl at Bar (uncredited)
Rohan Quine
Character Drug User in Subway Bathroom (uncredited)
Gus Scharr
Character Priest (uncredited)
Brian Shakti
Character Catholic School Boy (uncredited)
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on Jim Carroll's autobiographical novel "The Basketball Diaries" (1978), which was written based on a diary the author kept as a teenager.
- The film is included in the list of works prohibited from distribution in the Republic of Belarus.
- River Phoenix was originally cast as Jim Carroll, but he died of a drug overdose before filming began.
- The role of the basketball coach was offered to Steven Lange, but he declined, stating that the book in the film's script had been significantly altered.
- Michael Imperioli, who played Jim's best friend (Bobby), Lorraine Bracco, who played Jim's mother, and Vincent Pastore, who played the man on the ferry chasing the main characters at the beginning of the film, later starred in the popular series "The Sopranos".
- The film was banned after a teenager named Barry Lukatis reenacted one of its scenes in 1996, wearing a cowboy duster to school concealing a weapon, and opened fire. In 1998, another teenager, Kip Kinkel, repeated the scene – after killing his parents, he went to school in a similar duster with a concealed weapon – resulting in 2 students dead and 24 wounded.
- Jim Carroll himself appears in the film in a cameo role as a drug addict in one of the scenes in a den.
- The film is based on Jim Carroll's autobiographical novel "The Basketball Diaries" (1978), which was written based on a diary the author kept when he was a teenager.
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