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Mood:
- RoughCaptivatingAtmosphericBleakSuspensefulTense
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Plot:
- Criminal HeroesGangstersCrime Gone AwryFriendshipAmbitionCrimesSocietyFriends more...
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Genres:
- CrimeIndependentNeo NoirDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century70s
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Place:
- New YorkUrbanUrban Ghetto
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Praise:
- Critically AcclaimedEssentialMasterpiece
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Score:
- Rock
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Flag:
- Strong Violent Content
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Mean Streets, 1973
English
USA
Profile of Mean Streets
The mood of Mean Streets is captivating, rough, and bleak. The plot centers around crime gone awry, gangsters, and criminal heroes. It is an independent, crime, and drama movie. Stylistically, Mean Streets is neo-noir. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban ghetto. Mean Streets is set in New York. It happens in the 20th century. The musical score is rock. Mean Streets is known for being a masterpiece, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that it includes strong violent content.
Summary of Mean Streets
Martin Scorsese's electrifying drama tells the story of Charlie (Harvey Keitel), a charming 27-year-old who is supported by his devoutly Catholic mother. He spends his days wandering the streets of New York City and nights hanging out drinking with his good friend Johnny Boy (the terrifyingly brilliant Robert De Niro), a loose cannon that can't seem to escape trouble. Charlie's extreme affability makes him the middle man between his mob-tied uncle Giovanni (Cesare Danova) and various clients, as well as between Johnny Boy and Michael (Richard Romanus), a bookie who has become fed up with Johnny Boy's constant debt dodging. As the city's San Gennaro Festival takes over the streets of Little Italy, Michael seeks revenge on Johnny Boy once and for all.
Mean Streets is the film in which Scorsese blossomed into one of the world's most ferociously distinct visionaries, a vision which has, for better or worse, become one of the most mimicked in the history of modern cinema. While his usage of a nostalgic pop music soundtrack, long one-takes and handheld cameras, and brutally realistic performances, spawned a generation of imitators, Mean Streets proves that while others may try to imitate, there is only one original. Mean Streets is a work of sheer cinematic bravado.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | October 1973 |
| Runtime: | 112 min |
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as Johnny Boy
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- by: Chucky
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