Parents Guide for
The Basketball Diaries (1995) More at IMDbPro »

A female prostitute offers to give oral sex to a group of men.

A male character resorts to prostituting himself at one point. He is seen recieving oral sex from another man in the bathroom, but all you see is the man following him into a bathroom stall and then dropping to his knees.

One character tries to pay another for sex.

A male and female character have sex

Two male characters watch a stripper

Jim has a fantasy where he is seen killing his classmates with a shotgun with bloody results.

Jim gets hit with a paddle repeatedly by his teacher

Jim and his friends get into a fight with another basketball team.Jim throws a basketball at a man's head while Mickey hits him with a bottle, breaking it.They then repeatedly kick the other team while they are on the ground.

Jim pushes Swifty into a wall causing his nose to bleed

Mickey threatens Pedro with an unloaded gun

Mickey accidently pushes a drug dealer off a roof, killing him. He then runs outside and is beaten by a few people and left for the police.

A man punches Jim causing him to bleed and then pushes him down a flight of stairs.

Jim tries to attack Reggie

Frequent strong language. 78 uses of fuck including motherfucker and a whole bunch of shit, goddamnit, dammnit, asshole, ass, and more

The film is about heroin use so there are plenty of scenes of using and talking about heroin.The characters also smoke marijuana and Jim is seen snorting cocaine.There is talk of using uppers and downers.Jim and his friends are seen smoking cigarettes throughout.