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Amy Robinson, Cesare Danova, David Proval, Harvey Keitel, Richard Romanus
A young hood in New York's Little Italy contends with saving the neck of his hotheaded best friend from the local loan shark and struggles with the religious guilt prompted by his lifestyle.
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Unpolished and gritty. Scorsese is obviously honing his craft here but it's still a fantastic piece of film making. I'm not crazy about the ending but it doesn't detract from the character of the movie. A must-see motion picture for Scorsese, Keitel & DeNiro fans alike.
Scorsese's first gangster film and a taste of what was to come. In many ways its better than his later efforts, the low budget complimenting the gritty reality of the streets.
Shot with a swagger, Scorsese's breakthrough film blazed with rock 'n' roll energy, rebooting the sound of cinema. For me, it is 'Be My Baby' that is one of the most important milestones in the history of cinema and it defines the background of the small-time mob. Harvey Keitel k...( read more)
Martin Scorsese's first film in a genre that he would define in the following decades is also his first pairing with Robert DeNiro in Mean Streets. The film is about a group of low men on the Mafia totem pole mainly focusing on Harvey Keitel's character Chralie who ends up being ...( read more)
Early really good Scorsese. Watch it to see some great actors before they devolved into a bunch of tics that they drag out for every performance.
IMO Scorsese and Deniro may have been just as epic of a duo if they would've stopped here. The world would've defifnitely missed out on several other classic movie titles tho? Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Kings of Comedy... to name a few.
Scorsese, De Niro and Keitel. In other words: the three musketeers. Shabby shots combined with 70s swagger and Rock 'n' Roll.
