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Taxi Driver (1976)
DVD (1 discs
)
Blu-ray (2 discs
+ 1 features
)
Digital ✓
Genre: Drama
Aspect Ratio: Wide
Sound: DD Surr.
Academy Awards:
4 Nominations
Synopsis
Loneliness can quietly curdle into something far more dangerous when a man feels invisible to the world around him. Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver," written by Paul Schrader, remains the definitive screen portrait of isolation and alienation erupting into violence. Scorsese and Schrader seemed to draw from the very same wellspring of psychological inspiration, and the film captured the personal, political and social anxieties of post-Watergate America with perfect timing. Robert De Niro made movie history as Travis Bickle, a tormented Vietnam veteran and former Marine who drives a cab through New York's seediest streets at night. His chilling performance created one of the most intense and vividly drawn characters ever put on film. Travis sees the city as an unbearable cesspool of human misery. After being rejected by Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a campaign worker he idolizes, he appoints himself the protector of Iris (Jodie Foster), a young runaway being exploited by a sleazy pimp (Harvey Keitel), with violent and devastating results. It won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and Bernard Herrmann's haunting score was his last. Disturbing as it is, few could deny its lasting power and importance.
Cast
Cybill Shepherd
Robert De Niro
Harvey Keitel
Peter Boyle
Albert Brooks
Jodie Foster
Leonard Harris
Director
Martin Scorsese
Awards & Nominations
- Oscar Nominee: Best Actor In A Leading Role
- Oscar Nominee: Best Actress In A Supporting Role
- Oscar Nominee: Best Music, Original Music Score
- Oscar Nominee: Best Picture
Keywords
AFI Top 100
AFI Top 100 (1998)
AFI Top 100 Thrillers
Classics
Cult Film / TV
Drama
Hookers
National Film Registry
Thrillers
Vigilante Justice
Technical Specifications
Audio Languages
Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Subtitle Languages
Chinese-Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai
Special Features
- Audio commentary
- Cast biographies/profiles/filmographies
- Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
- Photo gallery
- Trailers/TV spots
- Making-Of Documentary
- Photo Montage/Portrait Gallery
- Storyboard Sequence
- Exclusive Interactive Screenplay
- Advertising Materials
- 40-Minute Taxi Driver Q&A: Featuring Martin Scorsese, Robert De Nero, Jodi Foster
- Orignial 1986 Commentary with Director Martin Scorsese and Writer Paul Schrader
- Commentarys by Writer Paul Schrader and By Professor Robert Kolker
- Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver
- Producing Taxi Driver
- God's Lonely Man
- Taxi Driver Stories
- Travs' New York Locations