Can someone please tell me why Mean Streets is rated R. This isn't a sarcastic question, I really want to know the content is like.

i'd like to know too...since i just bought it a few days ago and am thinking of watching it with a few college buddies.

It's a Scorcese movie, which means language and violence. Don't remember any sex, but it's been a while since I've seen it.

Lots of language, lots of violence, lots of nudity. There is definately female full frontal and, if I remember right, some male ass shots, but I'm not positive about those. The language and violence goes withour saying.

Dan

but no rape, right?

There is also a scene of "Teen Partying" and "a fight"

Funniest thing I've read all day!

No rape, not even that much violence or nudity. You could count the scenes on one hand, I think, if you wanted to count scenes with violence and nudity.

Tamer than Goodfellas and Taxi Driver, in that regard.

As for the important things - smoking and blasphemy - well this didn't lose as many points as some films, like Frankenstein (1930).