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Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological vigilante film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks.
Sort by Popularity. View full company info for Italo/Judeo Productions. 1. Taxi Driver. 1976 1h 54m R. 8.2 (918K) Rate. 94 Metascore. A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams...
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- Robert De Niro
Taxi Driver is probably Scorsese’s most discussed film. Analyses have varied from close formal and thematic exegesis (Bliss 1985, Kolker 1988, Friedman 1997) to studies of the film as, for example, as ‘incoherent text’ (Wood 1980), the culmination...
- Leighton Grist
- 2000
An Italo-Judeo Production: Taxi Driver I Taxi Driveris probably Scorsese’s most discussed film. Analyses have varied from close formal and thematic exegesis (Bliss 1985, Kolker 1988, Friedman 1997) to studies of the film as, for example, as ‘inco-herent text’ (Wood 1980), the culmination of Hollywood’s ‘certain ten-
BAFTA Awards. • 3 Wins & 7 Nominations. Scorsese’s 1976 masterpiece is the all-too-real story of a psychotic New York cabby who is driven to violence in an attempt to rescue a teenage prostitute. [Sony]
