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Release Date
Feb 8, 1976 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 1, 1997
Budget $1,300,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 53 minutes
Country USA
Studio Columbia Pictures
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Other Titles
• Taxi Driver (1976)
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama, Psychos, Psychodrama, Disturbing, Suspense, Cult Classic, Prostitution, Mental Illness, Urban, Police, Thieves, Black Comedy, Gore, Murder, Love
Tagline: On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.
Plot: 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.
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