Taxi Driver is a 1976 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The film is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro and features Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd, and a young Jodie Foster. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The...
When Betsy won't return Travis' calls, he comes to her place of work and tell...
When Wizard asks Travis if he has the 5 dollars that he owes him, Charlie T (...
Betsy comes into Travis' cab and talks a bit about Palentine and how he is su...
Wizard is talking to some of his friends in New York and is telling them a st...
Iris' parents write to Travis to thank him for helping her, and to let him kn...
Iris' parents write Travis a letter, thanking him for helping Iris get out of...
After Travis shoots Sport, he comes into Iris' apartment and starts shooting ...
Travis asks about Iris, picks a fight with Sport and kills him.
After trying to pull a gun on Palentine, Travis goes over to see Sport and ki...
After trying to pull a gun on Palentine, Travis drives to see Sport, who does...
Palentine speaks at a campaign rally and talks about his plan for radical cha...
Palantine speaks at a rally, and describes his platform of radical change.
Travis narrates that he has one purpose in life, to help clear the streets of...
Sport holds Iris and tells her that he loves her, that he'd be lost without h...
Iris tells sport that she doesn't like being a prostitute. He manipulates he...
Iris is talking to Travis at breakfast and asks about his cabbie job, and if ...
Travis is talking to Iris at breakfast and tells her that somebody needs to d...
Iris is on the defensive when Travis tells her to move back in with her paren...
Travis meets Iris for breakfast and she calls him a square for trying to conv...
Iris tells Travis that she doesn't need his help, she can leave any time she ...
Travis does not want to have sex with Iris, instead he tries to help her.
Travis talks to Iris and tries to explain that he wants to help her get out o...
Travis takes Iris into a hotel room and asks her how old she is and what her ...
Sport makes fun of Travis when they first meet.
“Everything a joke to you, Fletch?” “Everything, Sam.” It’s like the first notes of the first song that I ever heard. A song that I can’t stop humming. See, I’m both afflicted by the plague of smartassery and fascinated by it; spending too much time analyzing it, absorbing it and writing about it. It even [...]
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A criminally under-worshipped film from the 1980s, Lost in America exists both as a comedic cautionary tale for all those who seek to embrace their inner Thoreau and the notion that well-fed boredom can be toppled by a mindless divorce from the swaddle cloth of society. Co-written, directed and starring Albert Brooks, Lost in America [...]
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen some large sea changes on Mad Men, so many changes that we seemed due for a break. Last night’s episode, “The Crash” was a break in more ways than one and an unanticipated jaunt through the back alleys of show creator Matthew Weiner’s mind. The Stalker We’ve never [...]
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