Martin Scorsese

Mean Streets

Mean Streets

Martin Scorsese emerged as a generation-defining filmmaker with this gritty portrait of 1970s New York City, one of the most influential works of American independent cinema. Set in the insular Little Italy neighborhood of Scorsese’s youth, Mean Streets follows guilt-ridden small-time ringleader Charlie (Harvey Keitel) as he deals with the debts owed by his dangerously volatile best pal, Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro), and pressure from his headstrong girlfriend, Teresa (Amy Robinson). As their intertwined lives spiral out of control, Scorsese showcases his precocious mastery of film style—evident in everything from his propulsive editing rhythms to the lovingly curated soundtrack—to create an electrifying vision of sin and redemption.

Film Info

  • United States
  • 1973
  • 112 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
  • Spine #1198

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Martin Scorsese and collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Excerpted conversation between Scorsese and filmmaker Richard Linklater from a 2011 Directors Guild of America event
  • Selected-scene audio commentary featuring Scorsese and actor Amy Robinson
  • New video essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith about the film’s physicality and its portrayal of brotherhood
  • Interview with director of photography Kent Wakeford
  • Excerpt from the documentary Mardik: Baghdad to Hollywood (2008) featuring Mean Streets cowriter Mardik Martin as well as Scorsese, journalist Peter Biskind, and filmmaker Amy Heckerling
  • Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block (1973), a promotional video from the film’s original theatrical release
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Lucy Sante

    New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde Design

Purchase Options

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Martin Scorsese and collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Excerpted conversation between Scorsese and filmmaker Richard Linklater from a 2011 Directors Guild of America event
  • Selected-scene audio commentary featuring Scorsese and actor Amy Robinson
  • New video essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith about the film’s physicality and its portrayal of brotherhood
  • Interview with director of photography Kent Wakeford
  • Excerpt from the documentary Mardik: Baghdad to Hollywood (2008) featuring Mean Streets cowriter Mardik Martin as well as Scorsese, journalist Peter Biskind, and filmmaker Amy Heckerling
  • Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block (1973), a promotional video from the film’s original theatrical release
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Lucy Sante

    New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde Design
Mean Streets
Cast
Robert De Niro
Johnny Boy
Harvey Keitel
Charlie
David Proval
Tony
Amy Robinson
Teresa
Richard Romanus
Michael
Cesare Danova
Giovanni
Victor Argo
Mario
George Memmoli
Joey
Lenny Scaletta
Jimmy
Jeannie Bell
Diane
Murray Moston
Oscar
David Carradine
Drunk
Robert Carradine
Boy with gun
Lois Walden
Jewish girl
Harry Northup
Soldier
D’Mitch Davis
Cop
Robert Wilder
Benton
Ken Sinclair
Sammy
Catherine Scorsese
Woman on landing
Martin Scorsese
Jimmy Shorts
Credits
Director
Martin Scorsese
Executive producer
E. Lee Perry
Producer
Jonathan T. Taplin
Screenplay by
Martin Scorsese
Screenplay by
Mardik Martin
Story by
Martin Scorsese
Director of photography
Kent Wakeford
Additional photography
Norman Gerard
Editor
Sidney Levin
Production manager
Paul Rapp
Preproduction and postproduction coordinator
Sandra Weintraub
First assistant director
Russell Vreeland
Sound mixer
Don Johnson
Wardrobe
Norman Salling
Script supervisor
Bobby Sierks

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Mean Streets: Rites of Passage
Mean Streets: Rites of Passage

Martin Scorsese’s breakthrough feature—a rare example of a work of personal cinema with broad popular appeal—delivers all the elements of his future career in one spectacular, bravura throw-down.

By Lucy Sante