Info
Year: | 1976 |
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Original Title: | Taxi Driver |
Length: | 112 minutes |
Genre: | Drama, Thriller |
Studios: | Columbia Pictures |
Distributor: | Park Circus |
Age rating: | Suitable only for adults |
Release Dates
United Kingdom: February 10 2017
United States: February 08 1976
Ranking
Ranking: 1,649 out of 16,242 movies (up 3158)
Ranked #67 in list 'The best movies ever'
8.8 by 55 users
10.0 by 4 media
Plot
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is a former soldier who fought in the Vietnam War, and since he returned from there, he suffer from insomnia. Then he decides to start working as a night taxi driver in the city of New York. Travis is not a very sociable person, who is not related to anyone and spends the day alone and watching movies, fantasizing about a girl who is a volunteer for a political campaign, Travis decides to take action and begin voluntary in the same campaign policy approach her. He is depressed, he see night after night as decadent society, and fears that one day he can go crazy. This happens when he meets Iris, one underage prostitute and Matthew "Sport" Higgins, her pimp. Directed by Martin Scorsese, 'Taxi Driver' is one of his most iconic films. The cast is completed with Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel and Cybill Shepherd between others.