Taxi Driver (1976)

Taxi Driver (1976)
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 of cleaning up the filthy city. When Travis meets pretty campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster).
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Release Date: February 8th, 1976

DVD Release Date: September 9th, 1997

R |1 hr 53 min

Plot Summary

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 of cleaning up the filthy city. When Travis meets pretty campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster).

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Leonard Harris

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genres: Drama

Production Co: Bill/Phillips, Italo/Judeo Productions, Columbia Pictures

Distributors: Columbia Pictures

Keywords: Car , 1970s , New York City , Rise , Dark , Quest , Rescue ,

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Mick LaSalleSan Francisco Chronicle
Its deeply anarchic sensibility has kept Taxi Driver fresh all these years. [20th Anniversary Release] show more
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Roger EbertChicago Sun-Times
A brilliant nightmare and like all nightmares it doesn't tell us half of what we want to know. show more
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Roger EbertChicago Sun-Times
The film can be seen as a series of his failed attempts to connect, every one of them hopelessly wrong.... This utter aloneness is at the center of Taxi Driver, one of the best and most powerful of all films, and perhaps it is why so many people connect with it even though Travis Bickle would seem to be the most alienating of movie heroes. We have all felt as alone as Travis. Most of us are better at dealing with it. [20th Anniversary Release] show more