Mean Streets

A shooting shows large amounts of blood spurting and covering the side of a car; the car crashes and the victims have some bloody injuries but are shown being helped by police and EMTs. Sex and violence are paired when a character recounts a dream in which he ejaculates blood and describes where it's smeared all over the place. Most of the violence throughout is fighting, beating, or brawling with punching, kicking, slapping, and using improvised weapons like a broken pool cue. Bruising and slightly bloody injuries are shown. There's another shooting that shows some blood dripping. A man brandishes a gun and fires it several times into the air, then throws a half a stick of dynamite off a roof. A man blows up a mailbox. A man pinches a woman's behind. A suicide shows a man putting a gun in his mouth but nothing else. Lots of physical and verbal aggression, and bullying behavior.

Sex and violence are paired when a character recounts a dream in which he ejaculates blood and describes where it's smeared all over the place. Off-camera noises and reaction shots imply a man is sexually gratifying himself with a young tiger. There's an extended scene with a woman's nude breasts visible for most of it; she's also briefly seen fully nude from the front and from the back. Kissing, caressing, and horseplay in bed imply a sexual relationship but there's no simulated sex. Elsewhere a few other kisses. Decoration in a "nudie" bar includes a cartoonish drawing of a naked woman; inside the bar women dance in bikini bottoms and pasties.

"F--k," "c--t," "s--t," "bulls--t," "ass," "balls," the "N" word," "f-ggot," "skanks," "Jap," and "chink."

The movie opens on a man injecting a needle into his arm in a bar bathroom. Many scenes take place in bars; main and background characters frequently drink. Drunken behavior includes showing people passing out and stumbling around. Frequent cigarette and cigar smoking, mostly in the background or by minor characters.