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Mean Streets
This film presents a look at a young man named Charlie, a young American-Italian and Johnny Boy. Over time, the bonnet is struggling for a short time to suffer success and achieve different paths in the 'moderate streets' in Little Italy, which promises everyone success.
8 December 1936, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 August 1956, New York, USA
27 May 1911, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2 September 1940, Amarillo, Texas, USA
15 July 1941, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
8 February 1943, Barre, Vermont, USA
February 14, 2001
Its greatness lies in its leanness, with nary a word, a move, a gesture that's nonessential.
March 31, 2008
The acting and editing have such an original, tumultuous force that the picture is completely gripping.
April 16, 2013
This marriage of indelible imagery with electric, seemingly incongruous pop songs wouldn't be bettered until, well, the next time Scorsese decided to do it.
February 09, 2006
One of the best American films of the decade.
March 03, 2013
Scorsese exalts cinema as the mediator of reality, memory and reverie, the demonic art that enthralls the church boy
January 01, 2000
In countless ways, right down to the detail of modern TV crime shows, Mean Streets is one of the source points of modern movies.
March 09, 2011
Authentic in feel and immensely personal in subject matter, Mean Streets marked the arrival of one Martin Scorsese and his unique brand of urban filmmaking.
May 20, 2003
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.
August 20, 2010
showcases Scorsese's artistic strengths and weaknesses as they stood at the outset of his career
May 22, 2016
[F]or all the violence of the streets, this is less a crime film than a character piece, a love letter to the streets of New York's Little Italy and the young men rattling around like tough guys and fantasizing about becoming the real thing.
March 31, 2008
Scorsese is exceptionally good at guiding his largely unknown cast to near-flawless recreations of types. Outstanding in this regard is De Niro.
