Taxi Driver (1976)
“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.”
Movie19761h 54mEnglish
Our verdict
Must watch
Audiences rate this among the best of its kind.
Based on the TMDB audience score from 13,803 ratings.
Movie review: Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a film from 1976. It is catalogued under Crime, Drama. Its listed tagline is “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.”
Story
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.
Audience reaction
TMDB records an audience rating of 8.1/10 based on 13,803 votes.
Production
Release date: February 9, 1976 · Runtime: 114 minutes · Original language: English · Reported budget: $1,900,000 · Reported revenue: $28,579,636
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Cast
Robert De Niro
Jodie Foster
Cybill Shepherd
Harvey Keitel
Peter Boyle
Leonard Harris
Albert Brooks
Diahnne Abbott
Victor Argo
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