Mean Streets

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In English with English and French subtitles.
Videodisc release of a 1973 motion picture.
Side A. Standard version -- Side B. Widescreen version -- Supplementary materials.
Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Denova, George Memmoli, David Carradine, Robert Carradine.
Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Denova, George Memmoli, David Carradine, Robert Carradine.
A film about a cheap, small-time hood working his way up the bottom rungs of the Mafia ladder.
DVD (with chapter stops); standard and widescreen (letterbox format)

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

All together, for the first time submitted by celesteh on June 15, 2010, 3:21pm I enjoyed Mean Streets. I really did. The question is, would I have enjoyed the film as much if I didn't love watching Keitel and DeNiro in some of their earliest acting roles? Would I have enjoyed the film as much if I had seen it in 1973? (I'd like to talk to someone who has). So for me, the best thing about Mean Streets is its time capsule quality. The streets (NYC sure looked filthy), the look. And of course, on-screen violence portrayed in a style only Scorsese's films seem to achieve.

As an aside - the music in the film is great, although sometimes I felt like it was a little overkill. Just because it's a great Rolling Stones song doesn't mean that the scene needs it, nor does it make it really any better. (Apparently Scorsese used about half of the film's budget just to get the songs cleared to be used in the film.)

One negative factor about seeing this film now, in present day, is that we have seen many similar things at this stage in the game. It's really become a genre, and not just with Scorcese. Little Italy or somewhere in NYC. Tough Italians. Lots of blood, and lots of guns. Someone is afraid of their father and someone's going to get their comeuppance. But to put a positive spin on it, this is kind of where it began. It's also the first time DeNiro worked with Scorsese, and that's pretty neat, too. It's definitely worth watching. And keep an eye out for the late David Carradine in a cameo appearance - it's a bloody good one.

it really SUCKED. One of the worst Scorcese movies I have ever seen. submitted by Tassos on May 21, 2021, 12:49pm THe script sucks big time. The rock songs were FAR better than your usual god-awful music score, but they alone could not save this sad turkey. I skipped many many scenes when they got boring and nowhere.