Noted by critics as one of the first films to portray Italian-American culture from the point of view of someone who had experienced it daily – and described by The Village Voice at the time as “a piece of urban ethnography, a realist rendering of a subculture that had never been shown on screen in such detail before” – MEAN STREETS (1973) features breakthrough early work from two recipients of the AFI Life Achievement Award – co-writer/director Martin Scorsese and star Robert De Niro.
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