Taxi driver [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents a Bill/Phillips production of a Martin Scorsese film ; director of photography, Michael Chapman ; written by Paul Schrader ; produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips ; directed by Martin Scorsese ; an Italo-Judeo Production.
Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976. Screenplay special feature (in English only) allows the viewer to navigate from the movie to the corresponding chapter point in the screenplay, and also from the screenplay back to the corresponding chapter point in the movie.
Contents:
Disc 1. Feature film ; Optional audio and/or subtitled commentary by Prof. Robert Kolker ; Optional audio and/or subtitled commentary by writer Paul Schrader ; Original screenplay -- Disc 2. Martin Scorsese on Taxi driver ; Producing Taxi driver ; God's lonely man ; Influence and appreciation: Martin Scorsese tribute ; Taxi driver stories ; Making Taxi driver ; Travis' New York ; Travis' New York locations ; Intro to storyboards by Martin Scorsese ; Storyboard to film comparison ; Galleries.
Summary:
A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
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