Taxi Driver

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, while attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process. Taxi Driver is a 1976 American English-language Crime Drama motion picture starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle and Michael Phillips. Bill/Phillips Productions in association with Italo/Judeo Productions. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips. Taxi Driver is written by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese. Columbia Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Taxi Driver was released on 8th February 1976 and takes a screen time of 114 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. Taxi Driver was made on a budget of $1 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $28 million. Cinematography was done by Michael Chapman and editing by Marcia Lucas, Tom Rolf and Melvin Shapiro. The music was composed by Bernard Herrmann.