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Synopsis: A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
Production: Criterion Collection
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
R
Year:
1991
129 min
4,007 Views


Try driving school, you f***ing nimrod!

Marty...

I may be having a brilliant

streak right here in the taxi.

Yes, I'm really in a taxi.

No, I can't tell you right now.

Um...

all I can say is...

I have an idea.

No. That's why I don't

tell you things, Marty.

I'm sorry I sound calm. I

assure you I'm hysterical.

I'll call you the

minute I know anything.

Good-bye, Mar-

Good-bye, Marty.

All right. This is Beverly

Drive coming up. Where to?

Uh, just turn right on Beverly Court...

then follow the hill up

to Beverly Circle, please.

Got ya.

It's up on the left. 971.

- Want me to take these in the house

for you? - No. Uh, that's okay.

- Just put 'em over there, please.

- No, I got it. It's my job.

No -

Okay, that'll be, um, 33 bucks, please.

Okay. Uh, no. Keep the

- Keep the change.

- Listen

- - Thanks.

Can I ask you something?

Now, this is gonna sound a

little crazy to you, but, uh -

Well, I'm a casting agent.

That means that I go

out and I find people.

You know, for really big movies.

And I've been observing you.

And I - I honestly think

you have something special.

As a matter of fact, I'm casting a part right

- right now that I think you'd be perfect for.

This is a

- a terrific part.

You could be a movie star.

- What, like right now?

- Well, yeah.

I really wouldn't want

to do that, you know.

I mean, I have a job. I really wouldn't

want to lose this job, you know.

I really wouldn't want to f***

things up right now, you know.

You understand, right?

Well...

let's not be hasty.

Um, I'm - I'm - I'm serious

about this, you know.

I just want to be sure you

understand what I'm offering you.

Yeah, but, you know, I'm a cabdriver.

You know, this is what I do.

Like I told you, I'm

gonna be a mechanic.

I don't want to press

you. I really don't. Um -

But I just want to make

sure that I understand.

Are you saying that you -

you just wouldn't be interested

in being a movie star?

- Nah.

- Hey, you could be a mechanic later.

Everyone wants to be a movie star.

Look, lady. You know, I

like the movies and all.

And -And I see you're

being serious, you know.

But that's not a real

life for me. You know?

I mean, I'm sure there's tons of girls

who wanna be in the movies and all...

and, you know, I -

I'm not saying it right.

It's just that I have everything

planned out for me, you know?

I mean, everything's going

just right for me now.

Well, you can't beat that, can you?

Nope.

But, you know,

I mean, I appreciate it.

- Thanks for the tip.

- You bet.

- Take it easy.

- Sure, mom.

Oh, shut up.

Taxi! Yeah.

Yo, yo, yo, yo, taxi! Sh*t.

Gotta get a taxi, man.

Here we go. Taxi!

Taxi! Yo, man. Right here.

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Jim Jarmusch

James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing such films as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem. more…

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