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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.

EN114 min9 February 1976 8.1
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.
Budget: $1,900,000Box Office: $28,579,636
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What Viewers Say

Virginia Adams
To add to that, the procedural elements are handled expertly. Visually adequate although rarely striking.
David
It's brutal honesty and use of themes such as paranoia, mental health issues, and society degradation make it a film that has been imitated, and referenced since its opening in cinemas back in 1976. Travis is one who is at odds with society, fed up with pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and all the other scum of the earth, he slowly works himself in his sleep deprived and drugged state to become a one man army ready to kill anyone he believes to be part of the problem. While plying his nightly trade as a NYC cabbie, he has some unusual encounters, including a fare from a fairly psychotically jealous man showing Travis the place where the man’s wife is cheating on him, and then a short encounter with Iris who gets in his cab, and then forced out by Sport, who throws Travis a dirty crumpled up twenty dollar note for the trouble, Travis then makes it his mission to rescue Iris from her situation while not to mention making a menace of himself to the visiting Presidential candidate.

Viewer Opinions (8)

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Pamela Harris@harrisp58348 opinions Β· User since 2012
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Phenomenal screen presence from every cast member. Don't miss this one. In addition, the visual style is absolutely gorgeous. …
1 May 1976User Review
David@wogsurfer
β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… 10.0
His attempt at normalcy with Betsy, by taking her on date to a movie that disagrees with her sensibilities ends in disaster, mostly due to Travis’ supposed naivety about what is considered appropriate and tasteful entertainment. Robert De Niro puts in a tour-de-force performance as Travis Bickle, a Vietnam War veteran with symptoms of PTSD and paranoia, who becomes a New York City taxi driver because of his inability to sleep. …
9 February 2020VerifiedUser Review

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