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Taxi Driver, 1976
English
USA
Profile of Taxi Driver
The mood of Taxi Driver is disturbing, bleak, and rough. The plot centers around a losing-it hero, social decay, and unfulfilled love. It is a drama and crime movie. In approach, Taxi Driver is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in a taxi and in an urban environment. Taxi Driver is set in New York. It happens in the 20th century. The movie is known for being a cult favorite, a Cannes festival winner, and controversial. Note that Taxi Driver includes sexual content, violent content, and profanity.
Summary of Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), New York City seems like a circle of hell. Driving his cab each night through the bleak Manhattan streets, Bickle observes with fanatical loathing the sleazy lowlifes who comprise most of his fares. By day he haunts the porno theaters of 42nd Street, taking his cues from the violent vision of life portrayed in these movies. As badly as Travis wants to connect with the people around him--including Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a lovely blonde campaign worker, and Iris (Jodie Foster), a prepubescent prostitute he tries to save--his attempts are thwarted and his pent-up rage grows, turning him into a Mohawk-wearing walking time bomb. Scorcese fills Paul Schrader's screenplay with a tragic realism, brilliantly capturing the muck and grime of New York City. De Niro, playing the fragile hero, steps so deep inside his role that the results are deeply frightening. Bernard Herrmann's haunting score--which turned out to be his last--completes the urban nightmare.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 8 February 1976 |
| Runtime: | 110 min |
| Awards: | Cannes |
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Critics Reviews
TV Guide
An undeniably brilliant, nightmarish portrait of one man's personal hell. (Review of original release)
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- by: Staff (Not credited)
The New York Times
Acting of this sort is rare in films. It is a display of talent, which one gets in the theater, as well as a demonstration of behavior, which is what movies usually offer. Were Mr. De Niro less an actor, the character would be a sideshow freak....
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- by: Vincent Canby
Users Reviews
Not the ending you expect, interesting plot. Good early Robert Dinero. entertaining movie.
- 21.April.2009
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- by: Jeannie Johnston
- Jeannie Johnston rated this movie6/10Okay
This movie has a cult status that precedes it, and I can understand why. The character of the Taxi Driver - played by Robert De Niro - is built throughout the film very well, and you are given an inside look into his head through his journal...
- 22.March.2009
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- by: Matthew
- Matthew rated this movie
8/10Great
