Taxi Driver

1976
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Title: Taxi Driver

Original Title: Taxi Driver

Year: 1976

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: February 10 2017
  • United States: February 08 1976

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.

Cast

Director:

Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese

Videos

'Taxi Driver' Trailer 3:12

'Taxi Driver' Trailer

February 6 2017

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Trivia

A totally unknown face

Robert De Niro has said that, despite having won an Oscar for 'The Godfather: Part II', he was still a relatively unfamiliar face and was only actually recognized once while driving a New York cab during his research for this film.

The intense work of De Niro

Robert De Niro worked fifteen hour days for a month driving cabs as preparation for this role. He also studied mental illness.

The explicit scenes of Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster was 12 years old when the movie was filmed, so she could not do the more explicit scenes (her character was also 12 years old). Connie Foster, Jodie's older sister who was 19 when the film was produced, was cast as her body double for those scenes.

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