Taxi Driver (40th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray) R

On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: November 8, 2016
  • Originally Released: 1976
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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Memorable Quotes and Dialog:

"You talking to me?"

Major Awards:

Cannes 1976 - Palme d'Or: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh97%

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If in Taxi Driver Scorsese's trying to show us that our cities are becoming like those of Clockwork Orange, Kubrick already did that four years ago, without nearly as much obscenity or gore. Full Review
Los Angeles Free Press
Nov 18, 2019
...De Niro's work retains so much strength and integrity you soon forget who the man is and who he became...
Los Angeles Times
Feb 11, 1996
Rating: 5/5 -- Melodramatic as it often is, the film is a riveting watch and De Niro provides a character study it is impossible to forget.
London Evening Standard
May 13, 2011
[T]his is absolutely bravura-filmmaking....[Made with] intensity and craftsmanship...
Sight and Sound
Oct 1, 2007
Rating: 5/5 -- Martin Scorsese's unflinching plunge into the darkest recesses of the human soul feels painfully relevant. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 6, 2017
5 stars out of 5 -- [I]ts continued longevity is rooted in the capturing of a very particular male loneliness and urban alienation, which frighteningly still touches a raw nerve today.
Ultimate DVD
Oct 1, 2007
Rating: 5/5 -- An absolutely nailed-on portrait of solipsism in its purest form, and how, in Travis' case, it takes hold as a lethal cocktail of narcissism, paranoia and gross sociopathy. Full Review
Patrick Nabarro
Nov 20, 2018

Product Description:

Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), New York City seems like a circle of hell. Driving his cab each night through the bleak Manhattan streets, Bickle observes with fanatical loathing the sleazy lowlifes who comprise most of his fares. By day he haunts the porno theaters of 42nd Street, taking his cues from the violent vision of life portrayed in these movies. As badly as Travis wants to connect with the people around him--including Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a lovely blonde campaign worker, and Iris (Jodie Foster), a prepubescent prostitute he tries to save--his attempts are thwarted and his pent-up rage grows, turning him into a Mohawk-wearing walking time bomb. Scorcese fills Paul Schrader's screenplay with a tragic realism, brilliantly capturing the muck and grime of New York City. De Niro, playing the fragile hero, steps so deep inside his role that the results are deeply frightening. Bernard Herrmann's haunting score--which turned out to be his last--completes the urban nightmare.

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