Synopsis
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
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Cast
- Harvey KeitelCharlie Cappa
- Robert De NiroJohn 'Johnny Boy' Civello
- David ProvalTony DeVienazo
- Richard RomanusMichael Longo
- Amy RobinsonTeresa Ronchelli
- Cesare DanovaGiovanni Cappa
- Victor ArgoMario
- George MemmoliJoey 'Clams' Scala
- Lenny ScalettaJimmy
- Jeannie BellDiane
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets isn’t so much a gangster movie as a perceptive, sympathetic, finally tragic story about how it is to grow up in a gangster environment. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
Mean Streets is a brilliantly made film--terrifically acted, sharply photographed and crisply edited. - 100
The Guardian
The movie's blazing energy is still astounding; the vérité street-scenes are terrific and Scorsese's pioneering use of popular music is genuinely thrilling. - 100
Time Out
Scorsese directs with a breathless, head-on energy which infuses the performances, the sharp fast talk, the noise, neon and violence with a charge of adrenalin. One of the best American films of the decade. - 100
Empire
Terrific. Top shelf talent at the top of their game, working immediately before they would change Hollywood. - 100
Los Angeles Times
Mean Streets is a jazzy riff of a movie, zigging and zagging as if to the beat of snapping fingers. Its greatness lies in its leanness, with nary a word, a move, a gesture that's nonessential. - 100
The New York Times
No matter how bleak the milieu, no matter how heartbreaking the narrative, some films are so thoroughly, beautifully realized they have a kind of tonic effect that has no relation to the subject matter. Such a film is Mean Streets. - 80
The A.V. Club
A galvanizing piece of personal filmmaking.
