The Basketball Diaries (1995)

Promising high school ball player and his pals jump into the world of drugs. There goes his scholarship, but here comes a whole new world of fame as a tragic poet. Score!

There's no nuance and no reason to care except for the fact that young DiCaprio displays what a terrific actor he was from the beginning (though it could be argued that he'd already accomplished that -- and better --in What's Eating Gilbert Grape...so, perhaps there's no reason to care after all).

D+