Taxi Driver

About Taxi Driver

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle 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.

Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is a 1976 crime film. At 114 minutes long, it arrived in February 1976.

The film is filed under audacious, obsession, complex, and drug dealer.

Robert De Niro stars as Travis Bickle, Jodie Foster as Iris, Cybill Shepherd as Betsy, and Harvey Keitel as Sport. The screenplay is by Paul Schrader. Production companies include Bill/Phillips Productions, Columbia Pictures, and Italo/Judeo Productions.

The Card Counter, The Color Purple, and The Heiress make useful companions to Taxi Driver, all filed under antagonistic and character study. TMDB voters put it at 8.1 out of 10 across 13,974 votes and it carries a R rating.