Several years ago Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman wrote that Martin Scorsese‘s “volcanic” Mean Streets — one of the greatest debut efforts of all time if you don’t count Who’s That Knocking On My Door? and Boxcar Bertha — “barely made pocket change back in 1973, [having] grossed all of $3 million.”
In fact, both IMDB Pro and thenumbers.com report that Mean Streets grossed $32,645 domestic (U.S. and Canada) and somewhere in the vicinity of $59,034 worldwide. The Numbers actually reports that the global take was $50,539.
