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Taxi Driver

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Taxi Driver
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Directed byMartin Scorsese
Written byPaul Schrader
Produced by
  • Michael Phillips
  • Julia Phillips
Starring
CinematographyMichael Chapman
Edited byMarcia Lucas
Tom Rolf
Melvin Shapiro
Music byBernard Herrmann
Production
companies
  • Bill/Phillips Productions[1]
  • Italo-Judeo Productions[1]
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • February 8, 1976 (1976-02-08)
Running time
113 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States[3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.9 million[4][5]
Box office$28.6 million[6]

Taxi Driver is a 1976 American crime drama thriller movie directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. It stars 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 Travis Bickle, a lonely taxi driver who descends into insanity as he plots to assassinate both the presidential candidate who is the boss of the woman he loves, and the pimp of an underage prostitute he befriends.

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 movie 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.

In 2012, Sight & Sound named it the 31st-best movie ever in its decennial critics' poll, ranked with The Godfather Part II, and the fifth-greatest movie of all time on its directors' poll. The film was considered significant by the US Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1994.

John Hinckley saw the movie many times. He wanted to impress Foster. He tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan by shooting him. Reagan survived the 1981 attack.

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  1. 1 2 "AFI|Catalog - Taxi Driver". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  2. ↑ "Taxi Driver (18)". British Board of Film Classification. May 5, 2006. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Taxi Driver (1976)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 29, 2018. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  4. ↑ F. Dick, Bernard (1992). Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio. University Press of Kentucky. p. 193. ISBN 9780813149615. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  5. ↑ Grist, Leighton (2000). The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963–77: Authorship and Context. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 130. ISBN 9780230286146. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Taxi Driver". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on February 1, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
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