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Mean Streets
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #969
- IMDb #1956
- Google retired #3137
- Rotten Tomatoes #792
- Metacritic #187
- Letterboxd #1452
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #791
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1226
- Metacritic Critics #56
- Metacritic Audience #1210
- Douban #1184
- Kinopoisk #2368
- AlloCiné #1471
- Trakt #2726
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Trakt on 70, highest is Metacritic critics on 96. Critics average 94, everyone else 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A small-time hoodlum in New York's Little Italy struggles to reconcile his ambitions within the local mob with his Catholic guilt and his personal code of loyalty. His life becomes increasingly complicated as he tries to protect his reckless and irresponsible friend, who owes money to dangerous loan sharks. Navigating the pressures of family, crime, and his own moral compass, he finds himself on a dangerous path that threatens to consume everything he cares about.
Details
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Writers
- Mardik Martin, Martin Scorsese
- Released
- 14 October 1973
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Italian, German, Yiddish
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $500.0K
- Box office
- $3.0M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 4 →2 wins from 4 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1974 | Best Original Screenplay | Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin | Nominee |
| Nastro d'Argento 1976 | Best Foreign Director | Martin Scorsese | Nominee |
| National Society of Film Critics Award 1974 | Best Supporting Actor | Robert De Niro | Winner |
| New York Film Critics Circle Award 1973 | Best Supporting Actor | Robert De Niro | Winner |
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×| Best Original Screenplay | Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Robert De Niro | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Robert De Niro | Winner |
| Best Foreign Director | Martin Scorsese | Nominee |