If you loved Akeelah and the Bee, try Mean Streets

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theyboth carry the tender mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Akeelah and the Bee, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Mean Streets is

New York City streets at dusk, a flickering streetlamp. A petty criminal and his debt-collecting partner navigate loyalty and ambition. Scorsese grounds his gritty coming-of-age story in the mean streets of Little Italy.

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