Taxi Driver
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Taxi Driver is a 1976 movie directed by Martin Scorsese. It stars Robert De Niro as a lonely taxi driver called Travis Bickle and Jodie Foster as a young girl called Iris who is a prostitute.
In the movie, Travis is a marine who fought in the Vietnam War. When he comes back to America, he is lonely and depressed, and starts getting violent. He starts working as a taxi driver and tried to date a woman called Betsy. One night a girl called Iris gets into his taxi and asks for his help. She is a child prostitute and wants to run away from her pimp. Travis then buys a lot of guns, and goes to kill Betsy's pimp. He kills a lot of people, including her pimp, and then gets shot. In the end, he is driving his cab and it isn't clear whether he is only dreaming about it or he really survived.
[change] Other websites
- Taxi Driver at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)