Night on Earth Page #6

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
4,068 Views


- What? Yo Yo.

Yo Yo. Yo Yo.

Yo Yo.

Yo Yo. It's, uh

No, it - it ain't got nothing to do

with that. It's my name. Yo Yo.

It's a toy for ki -Yo Yo.

- Ain't got nothin' to do with that, man.

- Okay. Okay.

Your name Yo Yo. My name Helmut.

Yo Yo, Helmut.

- It's good.

- Helmet.

What?

What the f*** is she doin' out here?

- Goddamn it!

- What has happened?

Damn.

There she goes again, man.

F***in' up again as usual.

What has happened?

Sh*t.

Just be cool, Helmet.

I'll be right back.

Angela! Angela!

Where the f*** are you goin', man?

Where you goin'? What are you doin'?

What are you doing,

Yo Yo? Get the f*** off me!

- Hey, don't be grabbing my clothes, man!

- Then get the f*** off me, man!

Ain't nobody on the street. Where

you goin'? Where you steppin' to?

- What are you so concerned about what

the f*** am I doing? - I'm concerned!

- Why you so f***in' stupid?

- Party here. Party there. Always partyin'.

- It's none of your f***in' business.

- It is my business. I'm family.

- You're not my family!

- You're supposed to be home with your husband.

- He knows where I'm at!

- I doubt if he knows where you're at.

He's

- Don't be touchin' me no more.

- I'm not touchin' you. Angela, listen

to me. All right? - What? What?

What's up with you? It's a

family thing, all right? Step off.

- Angela, come on.

- Oh, man.

- No, man. I don't -What

are you - - Come on.

- Don't be hittin' on me.

- Then get the f*** off me, man!

Get in the car, Angela.

- Get in the f***in' car. Come on.

- Who the f*** are you - Get off!.

Get the f*** off of me, man!

- Get the f*** off of me!

- Get in the car. Get in the car.

Angela, just calm down. Just calm down.

- Get the f*** off of me!

- Get in the car. Angela, get in the car.

Don't make me have to hurt you.

Don't be kickin' me. Don't be kickin'.

- Sh*t.

- What the f*** are you doin'?

What you doin'?

Let me out of this car!

What the f*** is your problem, man?

- What the f*** is your f***in'

problem, man? - You're my problem!

- No, you're my f***in' problem.

- Angela, don't be cursin' me out.

- Well, f*** you, f*** you and f*** you!

- Look, Angela. Just shut up!

No, you shut up. Don't

be telling me to shut up.

- Shut up!

- You shut up!

- No, you shut up!

- Sh*t.

You know what your

f***in' problem is, Yo Yo?

You don't realize that you're

wearing your ass on your head.

Oh, hey, don't worry, Helmet,

man. It's just a family thing.

- You're not my f***in' family.

- Look, I am your family.

- You ain't sh*t to me. - I'm

your brother-in-law, all right?

- Angela, just calm down!

- Don't tell me to calm down!

She's really beautiful. She's beautiful.

- Yeah, you think so, huh?

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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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