Mean Streets

Parents need to know that Mean Streets is a 1973 drama from Martin Scorcese with lots of violence, profanity, drinking, and mature sexual content, and it's not for kids. Violence mostly includes fighting with punching, kicking, and improvised weapons, but there are two shootings. One shows multiple gunshots and blood dripping on the victim's shirt. The other shows large amounts of blood spewing and smeared all over the side of a car. Sex and violence are paired when a man tells about a dream in which he ejaculated blood. Lots of physical and verbal aggression. Strong language includes "f--k," "c--t," "s--t," the "N" word, and other racist or bigoted words like "chink," "Jap," and "f-ggot." An extended scene shows a woman's bare breasts for most of it, and she's briefly seen fully nude from the front and the back. Off-camera noises and reaction shots imply a man gratifies himself sexually with an animal. Dancers in a nightclub wear bikini bottoms and pasties. The opening scene shows a man injecting a needle into his arm in a men's room. Lots of drinking, including extended drunken behavior like passing out and stumbling around. Cigarettes are frequently seen, mostly in the background, and one character is always holding or smoking a cigar. There are no positive role models or messages; it's a hard-scrabble look at low-level criminals living hard-scrabble lives.