Title | : | Mean Streets |
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Release | : | 1973 |
Rating | : | 7.4 |
Language | : | English, Italian |
Runtime | : | 112 |
Genre | : | Action,Crime,Drama,Romance,Thriller |
The future is set for Tony and Michael - owning a neighbour- hood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York city's Little Italy. For Charlie, the future is less clearly defined. A small-time hood, he works for his uncle, making collections and reclaiming bad debts. He's probably too nice to succeed. In love with a woman his uncle disapproves of (because of her epilepsy) and a friend of her cousin, Johnny Boy, a near psychotic whose trouble-making threatens them all - he can't reconcile opposing values. A failed attempt to escape (to Brooklyn) moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future.
Martin Scorsese (screenplay), Mardik Martin (screenplay), Martin Scorsese (story)