Saturday Night at Market Chess Cinemas

Mean Streets (1973) is often seen as the the film which gave birth to some of the later classics in which Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese collaborated. I recommend it on a standalone basis as well, though the context for future films is warranted too.

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Harvey Keitel plays Charlie, working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Amy Robinson is Teresa, the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. And in the starmaking role that won Best Supporting Actor Awards from the New York and National Society of FIlm Critics, De Niro is Johnny Boy, a small-time gambler in big-time debt to loan sharks. This is a story Martin Scorsese lived, a semi-biographical tale of the first-generation sons and daughters of New York's Little Italy.