Mean Streets (1973)

The future is set for Tony and Michael – owning a neighbour- hood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York city’s Little Italy. For Charlie, the future is less clearly defined. A small-time hood, he works for his uncle, making collections and reclaiming bad debts. He’s probably too nice to succeed. In love with a woman his uncle disapproves of (because of her epilepsy) and a friend of her cousin, Johnny Boy, a near psychotic whose trouble-making threatens them all – he can’t reconcile opposing values. A failed attempt to escape (to Brooklyn) moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future.
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson
02 Oct 1973 (USA)
5 wins & 5 nominations.tt0070379 , Epilepsy, Protection Money, Secret Love, Money, Redemption