Swifty basketball12/15/2023 Epic Fail: Mickey and Jim trying to play in a game on drugs.Drugs Causing Slow-Motion: A drug-induced Dream Sequence where Jim shoots up the school features him talking in slow-motion.Drugs Are Bad: Arguably a 1990s equivalent to Requiem for a Dream aimed at teenagers and young adults.Disappeared Dad: Jim is being raised by a single mother during the movie.Descent into Addiction: Jim becomes addicted to cocaine and heroin over the course of the film. ![]() Cue the Rain: The boys are shown playing an impromptu game of basketball in the rain, complete with Jim hanging off the rim, only to rhetorically ask if he's ever talked about the first time he did heroin.Censor Shadow: In the scene where Jim masturbates naked on top of a building, most of his body is obscured by the darkness, but we do see his right arm.Caught with Your Pants Down: Before the first basketball game shown in the film, Swifty apparently walks in on someone masturbating and reminds them that that's not allowed before games.Boarding School of Horrors: Not quite a boarding school, but the Catholic high school they attend features a caning scene almost immediately in the film, with threats of a repeat the next day. ![]() In the end, only one out of the three really learned their lesson. Pedro is still into drugs but is on amicable terms with Jim, while Mickey has a sentence of 5-15 years to do from his Accidental Murder. Jim does get his life back on track, but only after serving 6 months in incarceration once he hits the bottom of his downward spiral.
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