Synopsis
A Catholic New Yorker falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her, but he struggles to accept her past and what it means for their future.
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Cast
- Harvey KeitelJ.R.
- Zina BethuneThe Girl
- Anne ColletteGirl in Dream
- Lennard KurasJoey
- Michael ScalaSally Gaga
- Harry NorthupHarry
- Tsuai Yu-LanGirl in Dream
- Saskia HollemanGirl in Dream
- Bill MinkinIggy at Party
- Philip CarlsonBoy in Copake
Recommandations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
I have no reservations in describing it as a great moment in American movies. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
To be sure, Scorsese was occasionally too obvious, and the film has serious structural flaws, but nobody who loves movies believes a perfect one will ever be made. What we hope for instead are small gains on the fronts of hope, love, comedy and tragedy. It is possible that with more experience and maturity Scorsese will direct more polished, finished films--but this work, completed when he was 25, contains a frankness he may have diluted by then. - 70
Time Out
In the aggressive self-confidence, the use of rock music, and the perceptive observation, Scorsese reveals an anthropological feel for street life and the attitudes of male adolescence, particularly how introversion and weakness are reserved for moments with the opposite sex, kept carefully apart from the mainstream of life. - 70
The New Yorker
Martin Scorsese’s début feature has just the slightest bit of story line, but the movie is a fascinating portfolio piece: a black-and-white blueprint for “Mean Streets." - 60
TV Guide Magazine
This is the ultimate student film.... The film is a creative, ultra-low-budget effort with a good sense of place and character. Scorsese presents a detailed look at the lives of these confused boys struggling to become men in an oppressive environment. - 50
The New York Times
The director, who also wrote the original story and screenplay, hasn't succeeded in making a drama that is really much more aware than the characters themselves. The result is a movie that is as precise—and as small—as a contact print. - 50
The A.V. Club
The film never jells, but it's the Rosetta Stone for Scorsese's later work. - 50
Chicago Reader
Martin Scorsese's first feature (1968), set in New York's Little Italy and starring Harvey Keitel in his first role, can be read as a rather rough draft of Mean Streets, down to the use of rock music and Catholic guilt.
