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Mean Streets

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With its strong evocation of the stifling ethnic atmosphere of life in Manhattan’s Little Italy, Martin Scorsese’s 1973 film shows how difficult it is for young Italian-Americans to exist in their ghettoized environment, trapped by traditions riddled with destructive contradictions and hypocrisies. Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro (pictured) star.

(KCOP Thursday at 10 a.m.)

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