Mean Streets

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R,1hr 50min

Genre:

Drama

Released:

January 1, 1973

Distributor:

Warner Home Video

Starring:

Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval ... More

Synopsis: "You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it." Returning to the autobiographical milieu of his 1968 debut Who's That Knocking at My Door? for his third feature, Martin Scorsese examined the daily struggles of a wannabe hood to keep his morals straight on the streets of Little Italy. Driven equally by his wish to become a respectable gangster like his uncle (Cesare Danova) and his desire to live his life like St. Francis, ... Full Synopsis

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	Mark Deming, AMG Review Mean Streets was not Martin Scorsese's first film, but it was the first one that really mattered, an alternately troubling and exhilarating look at one man's obsessions and at a subculture that other movies rarely examine beneath the surface. Scorsese's fascination with sin, redemption, guilt, and crime first bore real fruit in Mean Streets, and in many ways Charlie (Harvey Keitel) is the ultimate ... Read Review

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	Robert De Niro Johnny Boy Harvey Keitel Charlie David Proval Tony Amy Robinson Teresa

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