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Taxi Driver

Turkish title: Taksi Şoförü

“On every street in every city in this country, there's a nobody who dreams of being somebody. He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive.”

1976 · 1 h 54 min
Directed by Martin Scorsese
CrimeDrama

Cast

Robert De Niro Jodie Foster Cybill Shepherd Harvey Keitel

Credits

Written by: Paul Schrader

Plot

Travis Bickle, a lonely Vietnam veteran, takes a job driving a taxi at night in New York and is repelled by the filth and vice he sees. Insomniac and isolated, he becomes obsessed with a campaign worker, Betsy, and then with rescuing a young prostitute, Iris, and his anger builds towards violence. Martin Scorsese's 1976 film, written by Paul Schrader, with Robert De Niro, is a landmark of New Hollywood.

Sinekatalog’s take

A lonely, unstable Vietnam veteran drives through a grimy New York. Scorsese and Paul Schrader's portrait of alienation is hypnotic, and Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle is one of cinema's most disturbing loners.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 8.2 / 10 (1,045,260 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: 89% (163 critic reviews)
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