Taxi Driver
18

1h 55m

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Contains very strong sex references and child prostitution theme

Selected by the Costume Designers Branch, Everyman presents: Taxi Driver 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). Martin Scorsese’s film of Paul Schrader’s original screenplay about a New York cab driver whose alienation from society leads to violence is one of the defining American films of the 1970s, and earned four Oscar nominations including Best Picture. Oscar-nominee Ruth Morley (The Miracle Worker) had an impressive career designing costumes for film, Broadway, and the opera, and Taxi Driver features some of her most iconic creations, with the unforgettable, Oscar-nominated performances of Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster aided immeasurably by Morley’s distinctive designs. Presented in 4k, the feature returns to the big screen at Everyman at The Whiteley on Thursday, 22 January.

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Norman Matlock, Diahnne Abbott, Franck Adu

Director(s): Martin Scorsese

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