The Basketball Diaries

The Basketball Diaries (1995)

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Corrected entry: When Jim and Frankie Pinewater talk about the latter's story of going to a church to pay penance and end up doing heroin instead, as Frankie tells Jim about smelling the incest, he is looking down at him, but in the close up shot where he questions himself about the aroma of the incest, he is looking up and his hands are raised close to his head.

windibd

Correction: Um.smelling the incest? I'm hoping you mean incense?

rswarrior

Corrected entry: After Jim goes to Bobby's funeral and goes crazy in the parking lot, Jim has a fit and leans into the fence, the guys begin playing basketball and Jim is seen drinking from a bottle he threw at the fence about twenty seconds earlier.

sunfox35

Correction: This is a mistake, it's Mickey who smashes his bottle on the ground.

Corrected entry: Early in film, there is a wide shot of the New York skyline that shows the Twin Towers, but this is a period film of the 1960's. The Twin Towers didn't exist until 1972.

Vicente Crooks

Correction: Jim Carroll's memoir recounts events from the 1960's. The film version is actually set in the early 90's.

Correction: So? The timeline was changed to make the movie more modern than the book.

rswarrior

Continuity mistake: When Pedro goes to the lockers room to steal something from the rival basketball team, we see that he manages to unlock one padlock, but in the next shot the padlock makes a loud noise as it unlocks.

windibd

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