Night on Earth Page #4

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
4,030 Views


Right here. Whoo! Right.

This is the ticket. Yo, what's up?

Brooklyn.

Brooklyn, man. Yo!

Yo, man! You suck, man!

I got your plate number!

I'm gonna call the T.L.C.I

Come on, man. Somebody pick me up.

Yeah. Come on. Pick me up. What's -

There's a million f***in' cabs out here.

Cash, man.

Yeah. That's the ticket.

This is gonna get me home.

Sh*t. It's gonna get my ass home, man.

I got cash, man!

Taxi. Look. I got the cash right here.

Taxi. Come on, man.

Come on, man!

What -What -

F*** all y'all!

No, you ain't gettin' -You ain't takin'

my cab now. You ain't takin' my cab.

That's right. Just keep

walkin'. Yeah. That's right.

Sh*t. They know you desperate. That's

all it is. What am I, invisible, man?

I don't give a f***. Get me a

taxi. Have my name on it too.

You go to Brooklyn?

Hello. How are you?

I wanna go to Brooklyn.

Uh, come in, sir.

All right.

- You know how to get to Brooklyn?

- "Brookland"?

Uh, better you show me.

Yeah. All right. Look.

Phew. Go straight down Broadway,

and then I'll explain as we go.

Hey, what's up?

What? You new at this? You

- You got - You got it in park.

Hey, man. You gotta put it in drive.

"D."

"D"! "D" is to drive.

- Put the motherf***er in drive!

- Yeah, yeah. "D" is to drive.

So -

Okay.

Hey, what's -What you

doin', man? Hey, what - Hey!

Hey.

- Hey, man. What's wrong with the car? Hey.

- It's automatic.

Hey. No, no, man. It ain't automatic.

Yo. Yo, man. What's wrong with-

Hey, look. What's - What's up, man?

- It's automatic.

- Pull over, man!

Just pull the f*** over! Yeah.

Pull over right here, man.

Sh*t.

What?

Hey, man. I don't think this sh*t's gonna

work out, man. I'm gonna get me another cab.

Oh, no, no. Please. Please.

You are -You are my-

my most best customer.

No, man. Look, you ain't takin' me

to Brooklyn. You can't even drive!

But you want taxi.

I am a taxi. I am here. Taxi.

I know you are a taxi. But

I'm gonna get me another taxi.

But no. No. Uh -

It's important. It's

very, very important to me.

We go.

Man.

Yeah.

All right. All right.

I'll go to Brooklyn, all

right? We will go to Brooklyn.

But you let me drive.

See, I drive and you ride.

I'll pay the fare and all that.

But I drive.

No. No. It's -

- What do you mean, no?

- It's not allowed. Not allowed.

Look. Yeah, it's

allowed. This is New York.

New

- Okay.

Good.

New York. New York.

New York.

Big trouble.

Big trouble.

In big f***ing trouble.

- Do you understand?

- Yeah.

- Do you understand what I

am - what I am saying? - Yeah.

Please drive careful.

Uh, drive

- drive careful.

- Yo, man. I know how to

drive. - No - No accident.

- No accident. Get in.

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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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