
You don&t make up for your sins in church You do it on the streets & Mean Streets& heralded Martin Scorsese&s arrival as a new filmmaking force
- & marked his first historic teaming with Robert De Niro It&s a story Scorsese lived a semi-autobiographical tale of first-generation sons & daughters in New York&s Little Italy 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 & in the starmaking role that won Best Supporting Actor Awards from the New York & National Society of Film Critics De Niro is Johnny Boy a small-time gambler in big-time debt to the loan sharks