Independent distributor Palm Pictures will release
The Basketball Diaries on Blu-ray on April 20. This 1995 drama, based on Jim Carroll's autobiography, stars a pre-
Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio in a bravura performance as a young poet and high-school basketball promise turned heroin addict. Note that the existing DVD release from 1998 isn't even anamorphically enhanced.
Special features include a Jim Carroll interview and poetry reading, and interviews with the movie's cast and director.