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Released
1973 · FILM

Mean Streets

A small-time hood in New York's Little Italy struggles to avoid his criminal past while torn between loyalty, love, and the lure of the mob.

“Go to church on Sunday. Go to Hell on Monday.”

Directed by
Martin Scorsese, Russell Vreeland
Written by
Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
112 min
CrimeDramaThriller

Synopsis

A small-time hood must choose between love, friendship, and the opportunity to rise within the mob.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 89+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sidney LevinShot by Kent L WakefordSound by Walter Goss Nm0331586Stunts by Bill Catching

Box Office

1973 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$3.0M

Budget$500K
Worldwide gross$3.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

19983 theaters
$33K($66K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Hexenkesselde
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesOct 2, 1973
  • BrazilJan 6, 1974
  • CanadaMar 8, 1974

Companies

ProductionWarner Bros., Taplin - Perry - Scorsese Productions

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