Giovanni also wants Charlie to distance himself from Johnny, saying " honorable men go with honorable men."Ĭharlie is torn between his devout Catholicism and his illicit Mafia work for Giovanni. Charlie is also having a secret affair with Johnny's cousin Teresa, who has epilepsy and is ostracized because of her condition - especially by Charlie's Uncle Giovanni, a powerful mafioso, and is told to stay away from her. Plot Ĭharlie Cappa, a young Italian-American in the Little Italy neighborhood of New York City, is hampered by his feeling of responsibility toward his reckless younger friend John "Johnny Boy" Civello, a small-time gambler and ne'er-do-well, who refuses to work and owes money to many loan sharks. In 1997, Mean Streets was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, who deemed it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It was also Scorsese's first critical and commercial success. The film was the first of several collaborations between Scorsese and De Niro. De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as "Johnny Boy" Civello. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 2, 1973, and was released on October 14. Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, co-written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin, and starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel.
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