Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver
“ 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. ”
CINEMA1976-02-09
DIGITAL2016-12-10
RegionUS
Runtime113 MIN
Media TypeMovie
Storyline
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle 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.
DIRECTOR / DirectorTOPIC
Martin Scorsese
KEYWORDS
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New Hollywood 1970s Revolution
Directors become the center as cinema begins to rebel against itself
