Jim's mother then finds the pills he has been using. Jim and Mickey quit the team and drop out of school. Swifty pulls them out of the game and lectures them in the locker room, telling Jim he'll never play basketball there again.
Unfortunately, the pills are downers, and the boys are stumbling all over themselves on the court. Before a basketball game against Harlem High, Jim, Pedro, and Mickey pick pills from Pedro's hat, hoping they are uppers Neutron is there, but he refuses the pills. In basketball practice Swifty takes Jim into the bathroom and offers him money in exchange for sexual favors. In the film he is seen running through a field of flowers to describe the immense pleasure he felt. Jim describes his first time using heroin. Mickey says "That kid was in so much pain, it's better that he died" Jim disagrees with this and they get into an argument over it. When the funeral is over Jim and his friends go to the basketball court and talk about Bobby's life. This is where Jim nervously tries cocaine for the first time. Jim and Mickey then go to prostitute twins Winkie and Blinkie. After this Jim and his main friends go to a cliff to jump into the river below it to prove they're brave. Jim then meets Reggie (Ernie Hudson) and they play some basketball together. Jim then visits his best friend Bobby (Michael Imperioli) in hospital who is dying from leukemia. At the restaurant the other team confronts them about the theft and then Jim and his friends assault them. After the match their coach Swifty (Bruno Kirby) brings them for burgers as a reward for winning the match. During the match Pedro steals from the opposing team's locker. The man chases them as they make their escape to their high school where they play a match of basketball. After Pedro gets a little too high he accidentally pukes on another man's head. They then sniff Carbona cleaning fluid to get high. After this Jim and his friends Pedro (James Madio), Mickey (Mark Wahlberg), and Neutron (PAtrick McGaw) are on the Staten Island ferry. When the teacher is finished he tells Jim "We can do it again tomorrow if you like Mr. In the first scene of the film Jim Carroll is being spanked in front of his classmates by his teacher. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.
He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin - all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind.
ESCAPE WORK BURGER SHOP GAME ADDICTION FREE
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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