A small-time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend Johnny and Johnny's creditors.A small-time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend Johnny and Johnny's creditors.A small-time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend Johnny and Johnny's creditors.
- Director
- Writers
- Martin Scorsese(screenplay)
- Mardik Martin(screenplay)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Martin Scorsese(screenplay)
- Mardik Martin(screenplay)
- Stars
- Awards
- 5 wins & 5 nominations
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Victor Argo
- Marioas Mario
- (as Vic Argo, Victor Argo)
Murray Moston
- Oscaras Oscar
- (as Murray Mosten)
- Director
- Writers
- Martin Scorsese(screenplay) (story)
- Mardik Martin(screenplay)
- All cast & crew
- See more cast details at IMDbPro
Storyline
The future is set for Tony and Michael -- owning a neighborhood 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. In love with a woman of whom his uncle disapproves (due to her epilepsy) and a friend of her disturbed cousin, Johnny Boy, a near psychotic whose trouble-making threatens them all -- Charlie just cannot reconcile opposing values. A failed attempt to escape (to Brooklyn) moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future. —Dave Cook <cookd@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
- Taglines
- Welcome...but don't break the rules!
- Genres
- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- R
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaFrancis Ford Coppola contributed money to the budget of the film.
- GoofsThe end credits on the DVD incorrectly list David Carradine as "Oscar" and Robert Carradine as "Drunk".
- Quotes
Martin Scorsese: You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.
- Alternate versionsNBC edited 10 minutes from this film for its 1977 network television premiere.
- ConnectionsEdited into American Cinema: Film Noir (1995)
- SoundtracksJumpin' Jack Flash
Written by Mick Jagger (as M. Jagger), Keith Richards (as K. Richards) (uncredited)
By The Rolling Stones
Courtesy of ABKCO Records
Top review
Robert deNiro makes one heckuva entrance here.
How can you endlessly watch a total screw-up borrow from the mob, annoy the only friend he has, and basically wreck his life without wanting to run away from it all? When the screw-up is played by young Robert DeNiro you are fascinated, you don't want to turn away. MEAN STREETS was not the debut of both Martin Scorcese or his stars Harvey Kietel and Robert deNiro. They struggled in the field for some time. This is the film that told the world, new head-honchos have arrived on the screen! MEAN STREETS tells of low-rent street hoods in Little Italy. Harvey Kietel plays the one hood whose a voice of reason, who doesn't mess up all the time, who is smart enough to avoid trouble. When DeNiro's Johnny Boy is first seen here, he is playing infantile tricks, and is telling his friend how he can't go in half the stores around him because he owes everybody money. Martin Scorcese uses a gritty documentary-shooting style to unfold his movie. It remains probably the best film of 1973 (But 1973 was not one of the best years for movies.)
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- boris-26
- Nov 21, 2001
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Season of the Witch
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $32,645
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $32,645
- Mar 15, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $41,131
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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