Additional information for Taxi Driver, which has a domestic theatrical release set for February 8, 1976. The film is being distributed by Columbia Pictures and has not yet been rated. Taxi Driver has a total running time of 113 minutes.
18
Argentina
MA
Australia
18A
Canada
18
Chile
K-16
Finland
-16
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IIB
Hong Kong
18
Ireland
18
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PG12
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16
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18
Norway
18
Peru
M/18
Portugal
M18
Singapore
18
South Korea
13
Spain
15
Sweden
X
UK
R
USA
R18
New Zealand
VM14
Italy
16
Germany
18
West Germany
16
Iceland
14
Brazil
16LV
South Africa
R-18
Philippines
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Taxikár
Czechoslovakia
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Hungary
February 08, 1976
USA
March 22, 1976
Brazil
May 13, 1976
France
June 02, 1976
France
June 10, 1976
Australia
July 01, 1976
Netherlands
August 05, 1976
Belgium
August 27, 1976
Denmark
August 27, 1976
Italy
September 16, 1976
Uruguay
September 18, 1976
Japan
October 07, 1976
Austria
October 07, 1976
West Germany
November 12, 1976
Finland
December 26, 1976
Norway
March 10, 1977
Spain
March 12, 1977
Sweden
April 15, 1977
Portugal
May 12, 1977
Hong Kong
December 01, 1977
Turkey
May 07, 1981
Italy
February 17, 1989
South Korea
February 16, 1996
USA
April 04, 1996
Australia
October , 1997
France
July 23, 1999
Denmark
July 28, 2000
Greece
January 10, 2001
France
December 13, 2002
USA
January 30, 2004
Sweden
February , 2004
Germany
November 10, 2004
France
April 12, 2005
Iceland
July 14, 2006
UK
September , 2007
France
October 10, 2009
South Korea
March 19, 2011
USA
May 13, 2011
UK
July 05, 2012
Greece
April 04, 2013
Portugal
May 01, 2013
France
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A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) goes to a New York City taxi depot where he applies for a job as a driver to the tough-talking personnel officer (Joe Spinell). Travis claims that he is an honorably discharged Marine (it is implied that he is a Vietnam Veteran). After making an impression on the personnel officer, Travis gets the job for the night shift due to his chronic insomnia.Via his narrative journal, Travis is soon revealed to be a lonely and depressed young man of 26 years. His origins and hometown are unknown. He sends his parents letters as well as birthday and Christmas cards, lying about his life and saying he works with the Secret Service. Travis spends his restless days alone in his rundown apartment somewhere in Manhattan, or in seedy porn theaters on and off 42nd Street. At one porn theater he tries to make an advance on the concession lady to no avail. He works 12 or 14 hour shifts during the evening and night time hours carrying passengers among all five boroughs of New York City. Sometimes during his breaks, he goes to a local all-night diner to have something to eat or just a few cups of coffee where fellow taxi drivers also hang out during their late-night lunch breaks. One of whom is a self-appointed philosophical type named Wizard (Peter Boyle). Wizard talks about the degradation of the night time in the city. Travis barely interacts with the other taxi drivers, mainly speaking awkwardly and shyly when he's spoken to.During taxi driving, Travis spies and becomes infatuated with a woman named Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a campaign volunteer for New York Senator Charles Palantine, who is running for the presidential nomination and is promising dramatic social change. Travis spies Betsy joking with a co-worker named Tom (Albert Brooks). Travis works up the nerve to ask her out and Betsy is initially intrigued by Travis. She agrees to a date with him after he flirts with her over coffee and sympathizes with her own apparent loneliness. She compares him to a character in the Kris Kristofferson song "The Pilgrim."Travis is further revolted by what he considers the moral decay around him. One night while on shift, Iris (Jodie Foster), a 12-year-old child prostitute, gets in his cab, attempting to escape her pimp. Shocked by the occurrence Travis fails to drive off quickly enough and her pimp, "Sport" (Harvey Keitel), reaches the cab. Sport forcibly grabs Iris away with him and gives Travis a crumpled twenty dollar bill as a bribe not to say anything, which haunts Travis with the memory of his failure to help the girl.During one of his shifts, Travis picks up Senator Palantine himself (Leonard Harris) and an aide. He tells the senator he plans to vote for him and the senator, acting like a real politician, tells Travis he learns more from cab drivers than limo drivers. The senator asks Travis "what's the one thing that bugs you the most?" and Travis responds that he would like the next president to "clean the scum off New York City."On their date, however due to his lack of social skills, Travis takes Betsy to a porno theater to view a hardcore Swedish "sex education" film (titled: Language of Love). Offended, she leaves him and takes a taxi home alone. The next day he tries to reconcile with Betsy, phoning her and sending her flowers, but all of his attempts are in vain and she refuses to speak with him. Going back into the campaign office, Travis confronts Betsy and shouts that she will "burn in hell like the rest of them".Rejected and depressed, Travis later picks up a man (director Martin Scorsese) who appears to be as mentally unbalanced as he is. The man tells Travis to park outside an apartment building while letting the meter run. He tells Travis to look at the woman in the window and tells him that's his wife in her boyfriend's apartment. He tells Travis he plans to kill them both with a .44 Magnum.One evening at the diner, Travis tries to express his despair to Wizard, but finds Wizard's half-hearted response: "that's just about the stupidest thing I ever heard".Travis's thoughts turn more violent. Disgusted by the petty street crime (especially prostitution) that he witnesses while driving through the city, he now finds a focus for his frustration and buys a number of pistols from an illegal drug/weapons dealer (Steven Prince).Travis develops an ominously intense interest in Senator Palantine's public appearances and it seems that he somehow blames the presidential hopeful for his own failure at wooing Betsy and maybe hopes to include her boss in his growing list of targets. Back at his apartment with his newly purchased guns, he begins a program of intense physical training and practices a menacing speech in the mirror, while pulling out a pistol that he attached to a home-made sliding action holster on his right arm ("You talkin' to me?"). Later, he hangs around a Palantine rally and asks a suspicious secret service man about joining the service before disappearing into the crowd.In an accidental warm-up, Travis randomly walks into a robbery in a run-down grocery and shoots the would-be thief (Nat Grant) in the face; adding to the bizarre violence, the sympathetic grocery owner (Victor Argo) encourages Travis (who has no permit for his guns) to flee the scene and then proceeds to club the near-dead stickup man with a steel pole.Later, seeing Iris on the street, he follows her. Another day later, Travis asks to pay for her time, and is sent to Sport. A tense conversation ensues but Sport sends Travis up to Iris's room. Once in her room, Travis does not have sex with her and instead tries to convince her to leave this way of life behind.The next day, Travis and Iris meet for breakfast at a local coffee shop and Travis becomes obsessed with saving this naïve child-woman who thinks hanging out with hookers, pimps and drug dealers is more "hip" than dating young boys and going to school. Iris considers Travis's offer but then Sport seduces and convinces her to stay, while (seemingly) Travis spies into the window from his cab. Travis writes a note to Iris including all his money and stating that he doesn't intend to survive.Any lingering doubt in the viewer's mind about Travis Bickle's sanity is obliterated when he is suddenly and shockingly shown to be sporting a crude Mohawk haircut at a public rally. He creeps through the crowd and prepares to assassinate Senator Palantine but is spotted by Secret Service men and flees.Travis returns to his apartment to collect all his guns, then drives to "Alphabet City" (an area of New York's Lower East side consisting of Avenues A through E). He walks up to Sport and confronts him. When Sport flicks a lit cigarette at him, Travis says "suck on this" and shoots Sport in the belly. Storming into the brothel, Travis blows the bouncer's hand off. Sport, who has followed Travis, grazes Travis neck with a bullet (causing an arterial gush from his neck) but Travis unloads one of his guns into Sport, killing him. Travis again shoots the screaming bouncer who follows him up the stairs, slapping him. Iris' mafioso customer shoots Travis in the arm and Travis shoots his face off. The bouncer tackles Travis but Travis stabs him through the hand and finally kills the bouncer with a bullet to the brain. He then calmly tries repeatedly to fire a bullet into his own head under his chin but all the weapons are empty so he resigns himself to resting on a convenient sofa until police arrive. When they do, the blood-soaked Travis mimes shooting himself in the head and then blissfully thinks of the mayhem and carnage in his wake.A brief epilogue shows Travis recuperating from the incident. He has received a handwritten letter from Iris' parents who thank him for saving their daughter, and the media (in newspaper clipping) hails him as a hero for saving her as well. Travis blithely returns to his job and suddenly seems on more friendly terms with the other cabbies. One night one of his fares happens to be Betsy. She comments about his saving of Iris and Travis' own media fame, yet Travis denies being any sort of hero. He drops her off without charging her. As he is driving off, he gets a strange look on his face and adjusts his cab's rear view mirror, giving the impression that his irrationality is about to break through again.
Martin Scorsese
Director(s)
Paul Schrader
Writer(s)
Phillip M. Goldfarb
associate producer
Julia Phillips
producer
Michael Phillips
producer
Producer(s)
Bernard Herrmann
Composer(s)
Concession Girl (as Diahnne Abbot)
Diahnne Abbott
Angry Black Man
Frank Adu
Melio (as Vic Argo)
Victor Argo
Policeman at Rally
Gino Ardito
Iris' Friend
Garth Avery
Wizard
Peter Boyle
Tom
Albert Brooks
Cabbie in Bellmore
Harry Cohn
Hooker in Cab
Copper Cunningham
Travis Bickle (as Robert DeNiro)
Robert De Niro
Soap Opera Woman
Brenda Dickson
Dispatcher
Harry Fischler
Iris
Jodie Foster
Stick-Up Man
Nat Grant
Charles Palantine
Leonard Harris
Tall Secret Service Man
Richard Higgs
Soap Opera Man
Beau Kayser
Sport
Harvey Keitel
Secret Service Photographer (as Vic Magnotta)
Victor Magnotta
Mafioso (as Robert Maroff)
Bob Maroff
Charlie T
Norman Matlock
Tom's Assistant
Bill Minkin
Iris' Timekeeper (as Murray Mosten)
Murray Moston
Doughboy
Harry Northup
Street Drummer
Gene Palma
Campaign Worker (as Carey Poe)
Harlan Cary Poe
Andy - Gun Salesman
Steven Prince
The John
Peter Savage
Passenger Watching Silhouette
Martin Scorsese
Betsy
Cybill Shepherd
Palantine's Aide (as Robert Shields)
Nicholas Shields
T.V. Interviewer (as Ralph Singleton)
Ralph S. Singleton
Personnel Officer
Joe Spinell
Angry Hooker on Street
Maria Turner
Campaign Worker
Robin Utt
Boy on Sidewalk (uncredited)
Tommy Ardolino
Movie House Patron (uncredited)
Joseph Bergmann
Police Officer (uncredited)
William Donovan
Clerk at Sam Goody Store (uncredited)
Jean Elliott
Campaign Worker (uncredited)
Annie Gagen
Director(s)
Writer(s)
associate producer
Julia Phillips
producer
Michael Phillips
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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