Taxi Driver
 | Collector's EditionStarring: Diahnne Abbott, Frank Adu, Gino Ardito, Victor Argo, Garth Avery Sony Pictures, 1976, DVD Customer Rating: 376 reviews Recommend This product is currently not available and cannot be purchased. It means that we have no merchant offers for this product at the moment or it was discontinued by the manufacturer. |
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A psychotic new york city taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with an educated political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams dont work out. Repellant frightening vision of alienation and urban catharsis. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Robert De Niro Harvey Keitel Run time: 128 minutes Rating: R Director: Martin Scorsese
Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film," Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political, and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realized characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power and importance. — Jeff Shannon
Title: Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
Sales Rank: 23352 in DVD
Actor: Diahnne Abbott, Frank Adu, Gino Ardito, Victor Argo, Garth Avery
Studio: Sony Pictures, 1999-06-15, Theatrical Release: 1976-02-08
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.85:1
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled)
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 113 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches, 0.15 pounds
- Powerful! Gripping! Excellent!
- This movie is very powerful and is certainly deserving of its Top 100 AFI rating. This is the story of madness and the slow decent into criminal violence that it leads Taxi Driver Bickle when he sees it as the only way out of a hopeless situation. Loneliness can be a terrible thing to deal with and while most people struggle with it and choose… More reviews
- God's lonely man...
- This is a very powerful film. It's very personal to me, because many of the problems Travis has can be related to me in ways. They can be related to everyone in ways. The problems of loneliness. The film expresses it through Travis in a deep, dark, and disturbing way. We connect to the character in his downfall. More reviews
- "You're Only As Healthy As You Feel."...
- Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) is a mess. He can't sleep. His diet consists of pills and junk-food. Mostly though, Travis is lonely. He's utterly alone in the milling crowds of NYC. Travis doesn't understand how the city got this bad, this full of filth and human debris. Why has it been allowed to degenerate into such a cesspool? Why is he the only… More reviews
- Taxi Driver: Scorsese's meditation on urban loneliness and alienation.
- Martin Scorsese collaborated with writer Paul Schrader to shock the world in 1976 with Taxi Driver. While Taxi Driver is now a film icon, it is worth experiencing again. Set in post-Vietnam New York City, it tells the story of Marine vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a 26-year-old loner adrift in the mean streets of Manhattan. Because he is a chronic insomniac, he works nights as a taxi… More reviews
- The original American Psycho
- Being a cab driver for almost 18 years, Taxi Driver is a personal favorite of mine. Driving a cab is like a drug: you get to meet new people everyday; you don't have to wait a week or two to get paid---everything's cash money; you get to know the whole city; you learn where the hot spots are--the restaurants, the bars, the clubs, etc.… More reviews
