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DVD : Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $19.94 Price: $8.99 You Save: $10.95 (55%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 9780767830553 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0767830555 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 15, 1999 Running Time: 113 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: February 08, 1976 Sales Rank: 19029 MPN: COLD03481D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A psychotic new york city taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with an educated political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams dont work out. Repellant frightening vision of alienation and urban catharsis. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Robert De Niro Harvey Keitel Run time: 128 minutes Rating: R Director: Martin Scorsese Amazon.com essential video: Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film," Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political, and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realized characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power and importance. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - God's lonely man...This is a very powerful film. It's very personal to me, because many of the problems Travis has can be related to me in ways. They can be related to everyone in ways. The problems of loneliness. The film expresses it through Travis in a deep, dark, and disturbing way. We connect to the character in his downfall. Rating: - "You're Only As Healthy As You Feel."...Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) is a mess. He can't sleep. His diet consists of pills and junk-food. Mostly though, Travis is lonely. He's utterly alone in the milling crowds of NYC. Travis doesn't understand how the city got this bad, this full of filth and human debris. Why has it been allowed to degenerate into such a cesspool? Why is he the only one who seems to notice or care? Why are all women the same? Why are all men such low-life trash? Why can't someone do something about it? It's up to Travis ... Read More Rating: - Taxi Driver: Scorsese's meditation on urban loneliness and alienation.Martin Scorsese collaborated with writer Paul Schrader to shock the world in 1976 with Taxi Driver. While Taxi Driver is now a film icon, it is worth experiencing again. Set in post-Vietnam New York City, it tells the story of Marine vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a 26-year-old loner adrift in the mean streets of Manhattan. Because he is a chronic insomniac, he works nights as a taxi driver. He spends his days in porn theaters. After he is rejected by Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a presidential campaign ... Read More Rating: - The original American PsychoBeing a cab driver for almost 18 years, Taxi Driver is a personal favorite of mine. Driving a cab is like a drug: you get to meet new people everyday; you don't have to wait a week or two to get paid---everything's cash money; you get to know the whole city; you learn where the hot spots are--the restaurants, the bars, the clubs, etc. You set your own hours and you choose where you want to work and whom you want to serve. You have no one breathing down your neck--you are your own boss. There's a saying among ... Read More Rating: - "Mr. Cab Driver. . ."The haunting musical soundtrack to this movie contains some of the most beautiful jazzy pieces I have ever heard. I had a custom tape made from it at one time. The story is a great psycho-drama with all of the players perfectly cast. Jodie Foster is believable as the "baby prostitute," Harvey Kietel, chilling as her pimp and Robert DeNiro is so fascinating to study as Travis Bickle, wierd product of NY subculture of the streets and psychological textbook example. It is, in retrospect, a brilliant example ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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