Taxi Driver

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  • Opened February 8, 1976 
  • 1 hr 53 min
  • R

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+. More on child suitability

  • Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) 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. When Travis meets pretty campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster). Full synopsis

  • Cast: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster
  • Director: Martin Scorsese
  • Genres: Drama

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Washington Post
| Desson Thomson

It hasn't aged so much as triumphantly metastasized. (Review twenty years after release). Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

Its deeply anarchic sensibility has kept Taxi Driver fresh all these years. (Review twenty years after release). Read full review

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An undeniably brilliant, nightmarish portrait of one man's personal hell. (Review of original release) Read full review

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| Roger Ebert

A brilliant nightmare and like all nightmares it doesn't tell us half of what we want to know. (Review of Original Release) Read full review

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