 Sony Pictures was dubious over DiCaprio's casting, and as a result, costar Sharon Stone paid his salary herself.The film was released to a dismal box office performance, barely grossing $18.5 million in the US, and received mixed reviews from critics.DiCaprio's next film in 1995 was "The Basketball Diaries", a biopic, in which he played a teenage Jim Carroll as a drug-addicted high school basketball player and writer.