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- 1. a public road in a city or town, typically with houses and buildings on one or both sides: "the narrow, winding streets of Greenwich Village"
Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime drama film by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel. It depicts the lives of young Italian-Americans in New York City's Little Italy, and explores themes of friendship, violence, religion and morality.
Mean Streets: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson. In New York City's Little Italy, a devoutly Catholic mobster must reconcile his desire for power, his feelings for his epileptic girlfriend, and his devotion to his troublesome friend.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Martin Scorsese
- 1973-10-14
Dec 31, 2003 · Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets” is not primarily about punk gangsters at all, but about living in a state of sin. For Catholics raised before Vatican II, it has a resonance that it may lack for other audiences.
Mean Streets is a powerful tale of urban sin and guilt that marks Scorsese's arrival as an important cinematic voice and features electrifying performances from Harvey...
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- Martin Scorsese
- R
- Robert De Niro
Aug 25, 2023 · Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval.Blu-ray : https://amzn.to/45qVe4i.
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Mean Streets is a movie about growing up in a gangster environment in New York's Little Italy, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel. Roger Ebert praises Scorsese's visual style, his realistic portrayal of violence and his sympathetic characters.
Italian-American Charlie, who lives in the Little Italy neighborhood of New York City, leads a conflicted life. He identifies as Catholic, but feels he has to deal with sins in his own way for absolution than say Hail Marys.