Taxi Driver (1976 movie)

Taxi Driver (1976) trailer starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster.

December 9, 2019 by Jessie Mendoza

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Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris and Albert Brooks. Set in a decaying and morally bankrupt New York City following the Vietnam War, the film tells the story of a lonely taxi driver, who descends into insanity as he plots to assassinate both the presidential candidate (Harris) for whom the woman he is infatuated with (Shepherd) works, and the pimp (Keitel) of an underage prostitute (Foster) he befriends.

  • Starring : Robert De Niro / Jodie Foster
  • Genre : Crime / Drama
  • Country : United States
  • Language : English / Spanish
  • Director : Martin Scorsese
  • Production : Columbia Pictures / Bill/Phillips / Italo/Judeo Productions
  • Distributor : Columbia Pictures / Columbia C.E.I.A.D. / Columbia Films / Columbia-Warner Distributors / Warner-Columbia Film / Warner-Columbia Films / Warner-Columbia Filmverleih / Filmayer / Ulus Film / American Broadcasting Company (ABC) / Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment / The Criterion Collection / RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video / Videosonic / Columbia TriStar Home Video / GoodTimes Home Video / TV3 / Cinema Club / Video Collection International / Mainostelevisio (MTV3) / LK-TEL / Nelonen / Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment / Egmont Entertainment / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Park Circus / Universal Pictures Finland / Greek Film Archive Foundation / Sony Movie Channel / Columbia Pictures Mexico / Eye Film Instituut / Fathom Events / Columbia TriStar / Netflix / Paramount Channel / R-Video / RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video / RCA/Columbia Pictures Video / RCA/Columbia-Hoyts Home Video / SBP / VTC-Video / VideoVisa

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Taxi Driver release date

  • February 8, 1976 : USA (New York City, New York) (premiere)
  • February 9, 1976 : USA
  • March 19, 1976 : Canada
  • May 20, 1976 : France (Cannes Film Festival)
  • June 2, 1976 : France
  • August 5, 1976 : Australia
  • August 19, 1976 : UK
  • September 10, 1976 : Ireland
  • September 18, 1976 : Japan
  • March 10, 1977 : Spain
  • March 12, 1977 : Sweden
  • February 16, 1996 : USA (re-release)
  • April 4, 1996 : Australia (re-release)
  • October 1, 1997 : France (Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival)
  • January 10, 2001 : France (limited) (re-release)
  • December 13, 2002 : USA (Moonlit Matines Film Festival)
  • January 30, 2004 : Sweden (re-release)
  • February 1, 2004 : Germany (Berlin International Film Festival)
  • November 10, 2004 : France (re-release)
  • July 14, 2006 : UK (re-release)
  • September 1, 2007 : France (Deauville Film Festival)
  • March 10, 2011 : USA (New York City, New York) (special screening) (restored version)
  • March 19, 2011 : USA (restored version) (limited)
  • May 13, 2011 : UK (re-release) (restored version)
  • May 1, 2013 : France (re-release)
  • November 4, 2015 : France (re-release) (restored version)
  • April 21, 2016 : USA (special screening) (restored version) (Tribeca Film Festival)
  • June 11, 2016 : Australia (Sydney Film Festival)
  • September 17, 2016 : Japan (Gokujo Onkyo Film Festival)
  • November 9, 2016 : France (re-release) (restored version)
  • February 10, 2017 : UK (re-release) (limited) (restored version)
  • February 10, 2017 : Ireland (re-release) (limited) (restored version)

Taxi Driver cast

  • Diahnne Abbott as Concession Girl(as Diahnne Abbot)
  • Robinson Frank Adu as Angry Black Man(as Frank Adu)
  • Victor Argo as Melio(as Vic Argo)
  • Gino Ardito as Policeman at Rally
  • Garth Avery as Iris’ Friend
  • Peter Boyle as Wizard
  • Albert Brooks as Tom
  • Harry Cohn as Cabbie in Bellmore
  • Copper Cunningham as Hooker in Cab
  • Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle(as Robert DeNiro)
  • Brenda Dickson as Soap Opera Woman
  • Harry Fischler as Dispatcher
  • Jodie Foster as Iris
  • Nat Grant as Stick-Up Man
  • Leonard Harris as Charles Palantine

A critical and commercial success upon release and nominated for four Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, Best Actor (for De Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (for Foster), Taxi Driver won the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The film generated controversy at the time of its release for its depiction of violence and casting of a 12 year old Foster in the role of a child prostitute.

It is regularly cited by critics, film directors, and audiences alike as one of the greatest films of all time. In 2012, Sight & Sound named it the 31st-best film ever in its decennial critics’ poll, ranked with The Godfather Part II, and the fifth-greatest film of all time on its directors’ poll. The film was considered “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant by the US Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1994.

In 1975, Travis Bickle is a lonely, depressed 26-year-old living in isolation in New York City. Travis takes a job as a night shift taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia, driving passengers around the city’s boroughs. He frequents porn theaters and keeps a diary in which he consciously attempts to include aphorisms, such as “You’re only as healthy as you feel.”

Travis becomes infatuated with Betsy, a campaign volunteer for Senator and presidential candidate Charles Palantine. After watching her interact with fellow worker Tom through her window, Travis enters to volunteer as a pretext to talk to her, then takes her out for coffee. On a later date, he naively takes her to see a pornographic film, which offends her, and she goes home alone. His numerous attempts at reconciliation by sending flowers and apologizing over the phone are rebuffed, causing him to become embittered and convinced that she is exactly like the “cold” people he detests in the city. He finally confronts her at the campaign office, berating her before being kicked out by Tom.

Travis is disgusted by the sleaze, dysfunction, and prostitution that he witnesses throughout the city, and struggles to find meaning for his existence. His worldview is furthered when an adolescent prostitute and runaway, Iris, enters his taxi, attempting to escape her pimp, Sport. Sport drags Iris from the taxi and throws Travis a crumpled $20 bill, which continually reminds Travis of her and the corruption that surrounds him. A similarly influential event occurs when an unhinged passenger gloats to Travis of his intentions to kill his adulterous wife and her black lover. Travis confides in fellow taxi driver Wizard about his thoughts, which are beginning to turn violent; however, Wizard assures him that he will be fine, leaving Travis to his own destructive path.

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