The future is set for Tony (David Proval) and Michael (Richard Romanus). The two own a neighbourhood bar and make deals in the mean streets of New York city's 'Little Italy'.
For Charlie (Harvey Keitel), however, the future is less clearly defined. A small-time hood, he works for his uncle, making collections and reclaiming bad debts. The problem is probably that he is too nice to succeed.
In love with a woman his uncle disapproves of (because she is epileptic) and a friend of her cousin, Johnny Boy Cercello (Robert De Niro), a near psychotic whose trouble-making threatens them all - he can't reconcile opposing values.
A failed attempt to escape to Brooklyn moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future.
Mean Streets is a Film programme that first aired in 1973 and has been classified a 18 certificate.
