Mean Streets
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| Directed by | Martin Scorsese |
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| Story by | Martin Scorsese |
| Produced by | Jonathan T. Taplin |
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| Cinematography | Kent L. Wakeford |
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Production company | Taplin-Perry-Scorsese Productions |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | United States[1] |
| Languages | English Italian |
| Budget | $650,000 |
| Box office | $3 million[2] |
Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, from a screenplay co-written with Mardik Martin. It stars Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro, along with David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, and Cesare Danova. Scorsese's third feature film, it centers on a group of troubled young men in New York's Little Italy, and centers on many themes the director would later revisit, including the Mafia, Italian-American identity, urban life, and Catholic guilt.[3]
Produced independently and released by Warner Bros. on October 2, 1973, Mean Streets received positive reviews from critics and marked Scorsese's arrival as a major figure of the New Hollywood movement.[3] Robert De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle awards for Best Supporting Actor for his role as "Johnny Boy" Civello.
In 1997, Mean Streets was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4]
- ^ "Mean Streets (1973)". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on July 11, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
- ^ Gleiberman, Owen (April 23, 2004). "Gross Oversights". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on January 19, 2007.
- ^ a b Sante, Lucy. "Mean Streets: Rites of Passage". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
- ^ "Librarian of Congress Names 25 New Films to National Film Registry" (Press release). Library of Congress. November 18, 1997. Archived from the original on August 11, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009.