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Yes there is. I'm not sure what year it was released, but it stars Robert DeNiro. Great movie. * Rating: * Genre:Drama * Movie Type: Psychological Drama, Urban Drama * Themes: Assassination Plots, Obsessive Quests, Unrequited Love * Director: Martin Scorsese * Main Cast: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster * Release Year: 1976 * Country:US * Run Time: 113 minutes * MPAA Rating: R "All the animals come out at night" -- and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In http://www.answers.com/topic/martin-scorsese?initiator=WANS's classic 1970s drama, insomniac ex-Marine Travis Bickle (http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-deniro?initiator=WANS) works the nightshift, driving his cab throughout decaying mid-'70s New York City, wishing for a "real rain" to wash the "scum" off the neon-lit streets. Chronically alone, Travis cannot connect with anyone, not even with such other cabbies as blowhard Wizard (http://www.answers.com/topic/peter-boyle?initiator=WANS). He becomes infatuated with vapid blonde presidential campaign worker Betsy (http://www.answers.com/topic/cybill-shepherd?initiator=WANS), who agrees to a date and then spurns Travis when he cluelessly takes her to a porno movie. After an encounter with a malevolent fare (played by http://www.answers.com/topic/martin-scorsese?initiator=WANS), the increasingly paranoid Travis begins to condition (and arm) himself for his imagined destiny, a mission that mutates from assassinating Betsy's candidate, Charles Palatine (Leonard Harris), to violently "saving" teen hooker Iris (http://www.answers.com/topic/jodie-foster?initiator=WANS) from her pimp, Sport (http://www.answers.com/topic/harvey-keitel?initiator=WANS). Travis' bloodbath turns him into a media hero; but has it truly calmed his mind?

Written by http://www.answers.com/topic/paul-schrader?initiator=WANS, Taxi Driver is an homage to and reworking of cinematic influences, a study of individual psychosis, and an acute diagnosis of the latently violent, media-fixated Vietnam era. http://www.answers.com/topic/martin-scorsese?initiator=WANS and http://www.answers.com/topic/paul-schrader?initiator=WANS structure Travis' mission to save Iris as a film noir version of http://www.answers.com/topic/john-ford-filmmaker?initiator=WANS's late Western http://www.answers.com/topic/the-searchers-film?initiator=WANS (1956), aligning Travis with a mythology of American heroism while exposing that myth's obsessively violent underpinnings. Yet Travis' military record and assassination attempt, as well as Palatine's political platitudes, also ground Taxi Driver in its historical moment of American in the 1970s. Employing such techniques as http://www.answers.com/topic/jean-luc-godard?initiator=WANS jump cuts and ellipses, expressive camera moves and angles, and garish colors, all punctuated by http://www.answers.com/topic/bernard-herrmann?initiator=WANS's eerie final score (finished the day he died), http://www.answers.com/topic/martin-scorsese?initiator=WANS presents a Manhattan skewed through Travis' point-of-view, where http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-deniro?initiator=WANS's now-famous "You talkin' to me" improv becomes one more sign of Travis' madness. Shot during a New York summer heat wave and ...taxi-driver

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