What is Carlito's Way / Mean Streets about?

Name: Carlito's Way / Mean Streets
Genre: Action/Adventure,Drama

CARLITO’S WAY, 1993, Universal, 144 min. Older-but-wiser gangbanger Carlito (Al Pacino) hopes to go legit -- but loyalty to his cokehead lawyer (Sean Penn) and the macho one-upmanship of the 'hood stack the odds against him. This neo-noir gangster masterpiece directed by Brian De Palma also stars Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo and Viggo Mortensen. MEAN STREETS, 1973, Warners, 110 min. Director Martin Scorsese’s insider’s look at small-time hoods in Little Italy stars Harvey Keitel as a guilt-obsessed Catholic trying to make good, and Robert De Niro as Keitel’s terminal screw-up of a cousin, Johnny Boy.

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What is Carlito's Way / Mean Streets about?: CARLITO’S WAY, 1993, Universal, 144 min. Older-but-wiser gangbanger Carlito (Al Pacino) hopes to go legit -- but loyalty to his cokehead lawyer (Sean Penn) and the macho one-upmanship of the 'hood stack the odds against him. This neo-noir gangster masterpiece directed by Brian De Palma also stars Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo and Viggo Mortensen.

MEAN STREETS, 1973, Warners, 110 min. Director Martin Scorsese’s insider’s look at small-time hoods in Little Italy stars Harvey Keitel as a guilt-obsessed Catholic trying to make good, and Robert De Niro as Keitel’s terminal screw-up of a cousin, Johnny Boy.