Mean Streets
Movie • 1973 • Crime
ReportA small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
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Unanswered Triggers
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Is there excessive gore?
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Sid
When Johnny Boy gets shot in the neck near the end the blood spurts out but the camera doesn’t linger on it. Aside from the very last scene and the shooting scene earlier in the film there is no gore
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Abuse
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I don't know if it's a cultural thing, but in intimate relationships there is a lot of yelling and threats of violence and name calling
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Addiction
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Sid
Someone injects heroin near the start of the film
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Is there addiction?
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Sid
Drinking and drugs but it’s all subtext
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Sid
There’s a scene of Charlie drinking until he passes out. There’s also an extremely drunk guy who ends up getting shot
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Are animals abused?
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A lion cub is kept in a cage inside a pub
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Assault
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Johnny Boy casually gropes a woman
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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geillis
There is one brief scene of the main character shaving and watching himself in the mirror.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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geillis
A woman is seen having an epileptic seizure, it is a brief scene.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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There's a dream that's talked about where someone ejaculates blood, but it's not shown
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Children
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Johnny Boy mentions that Charlie’s grandmother is dying
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Fear
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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The cops are seen as an annoyance more than anything. The characters pay them off
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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geillis
Opening scene, after title sequence.
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Mental Health
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Charlie has a habit of self harming by holding his hand near a flame, normally to remind himself about Hell after doing something he considers to be sinful. Apparently a priest taught him to do it. When one of his friends witnesses it he calls him crazy
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Sid
Johnny Boy is violent and unpredictable. He’s more a vandal than really violent though. He plays around with firecrackers and a gun
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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It's said in conversation, but casually
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Sid
Johnny Boy has a kind of breakdown because of his debts and starts shouting and crying. Throughout the film he’s clearly mentally ill and behaves in erratic and self destructive ways. Charlie has some serious Catholic guilt and is often very tense. He trembles sometimes and puts his finger in an open flame to calm himself when he thinks he has sinned
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Sid
There are scenes of people struggling to walk down very crowded streets because of the feast that is happening
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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voteshiloh2024
it's kind of implied, but nothing is shown on screen.
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Sid
One could argue that the way Johnny Boy behaves is suicide as he deliberately disrespects people who he knows could kill him. There’s also a brief scene of someone describing how someone else killed himself. The man is shown putting a gun in his mouth and the camera cuts away as he pulls the trigger
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Sid
There’s a scene when Charlie gets drunk where the camera seems to be mounted on his chest pointing towards his face and it moves with him, which made me quite dizzy. Throughout the film, there are shots of characters taken from behind with a handheld camera, sometimes with the cameraman running. There’s also shaky home-video footage at the beginning
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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One flash when someone goes into the bathroom to kill themselves
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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One of the characters is fat and Charlie jokes “i see you’ve lost a few tonnes”
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Sid
There’s a pretty long scene of all the main characters being homophobic towards a caricature of a gay man. This film was made in 1973 and that was seen as okay back then
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Someone talks about Jews being promiscuous
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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There’s a homophobic caricature who tries to get off with every man in sight
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Is there hate speech?
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geillis
Towards black, gay and jewish people.
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Are there n-words?
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There’s quite a lot of casual racism towards black and jewish characters and some derogatory language about asians
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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geillis
There is one sex scene but no penetration is shown, only a man on top of a woman and a quick cut. There is a voiceover however, describing a sexual experience (ejaculation).
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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In the last scene. Charlie begins to drive dangerously, then a car pulls up and fires into his car. The passengers are hit and the car swerves and crashes onto a fire hydrant
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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When the first person gets shot and when Johnny Boy is shot in the neck. Charlie also graphically describes a dream where he ejaculates blood
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Is there gun violence?
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Sid
Someone gets shot several times in the torso and in the last scene Johnny Boy gets shot in the neck. Someone with a gun in their mouth is also briefly shown and there’s a tense scene of Johnny Boy on a roof behaving irresponsibly with a gun, then brandishing it later on as well.
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