This film by the talented independent director, Jim Jarmusch, is a collection of five vignettes each taking place in the confines of a taxi ride. Covering one night on earth, the stories occur simultaneously in five different cities and five different time zones: Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, London and Helsinki. Highlights include Roberto Benigni as the Roman taxi driver who recounts his past sexual exploits to a priest who is dying of a heart-attack in the back seat. In the New York scene a novice East German taxi driver (Armin Mueller-Stahl) has trouble with the foot pedals and his passenger ends up driving himself to Brooklyn. Cast includes Gena Rowlands, Rosie Perez, Giancarlo Esposito, Winona Ryder, Beatrice Dalle.
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ACMI Identifier
309553
Language
English
Audience classification
MA
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Taxicab drivers
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Taxicab drivers
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
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VHS; Access Print (Section 1)