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Filth
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Shared genres: Crime, Drama.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1995 1h 42m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film is an Film adaptation of poet and memoirist Jim Carroll's juvenile diaries chronicling his kaleidoscopic free-fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. The role of Jim is played by Leonardo DiCaprio. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers on his friends and the basketball court; the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. Bobby (Michael Imperioli), a best friend who is dying of leukemia; a coach ("Swifty", played by Bruno Kirby) who makes sexual advances to Jim; and an appetite for cocaine and heroin begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. After Bobby succumbs to his illness, Jim tries heroin for the first time and addiction.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Patrick McGaw
Neutron
Ernie Hudson
Reggie
Manny Alfaro
Manny
Cynthia Daniel
Winkie
Brittany Daniel
Blinkie
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jim Carroll
Lorraine Bracco
Jim's Mother
James Madio
Pedro