Movie Substrate · Film

The Basketball Diaries (1995)

★ 7.4 · 2,184 ratings on TMDB

The true story of the death of innocence and the birth of an artist.

The Basketball Diaries poster★ 7.4

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

DirectorScott Kalvert
CastBarton Heyman, Bruno Kirby, Ernie Hudson, James Madio, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco
GenresCrime, Drama
The emergence reading

The Basketball Diaries keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
Explore Movie Substrate → Where to watch ↗ TMDB ↗ Rotten Tomatoes ↗ Ask about this film → Reading look wrong? → Copy link

Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10Doctor Strange (2016)E8/E9/E10The Dark Knight (2008)E8/E9/E10The Dark Knight Rises (2012)E8/E9/E10Thor (2011)E8/E9/E10Titanic (1997)E8/E9/E10

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

The Siege (1998)E11/E12 · Crime, DramaElite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)E11/E12 · Crime, DramaA Conspiracy of Faith (2016)E11/E12 · Crime, DramaPolice Story 4: First Strike (1996)E11/E12 · Crime, DramaThe Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)E11/E12 · Crime, DramaZ (1969)E11/E12 · Crime, Drama

Same people

Shared director or cast.

The Departed (2006)Leonardo DiCaprioThe Lovely Bones (2009)Mark WahlbergThe Union (2024)Lorraine BraccoInception (2010)Leonardo DiCaprioThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013)Leonardo DiCaprioGhostbusters (1984)Ernie Hudson