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Directed by: Martin Scorsese Written by: Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin; Story by Martin Scorsese Starring: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus & Cesare Danova What the box says: "A true original and a triumph of personal filmmaking." (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker) Mean Streets heralded Martin Scorsese's arrival as a new filmmaking force - and marked his first historic teaming with Robert De Niro. It's a story Scorsese lived, a semi-autobiographical tale of the first-generation sons and daughters of New York's Little Italy. Harvey Keitel plays Charlie, working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Amy Robinson is Teresa, the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. And in the starmaking role that won Best Supporting Actor Awards from the New York and National Society of Film Critics, De Niro is Johnny Boy, a small-time gambler in big-time debt to loan sharks. |
