Taxi Driver 1976 All The Animals Come Out At Night

FILM DESCRIPTION: All the animals come out at night and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In Martin Scorsese s classic 1970s drama, insomniac exMarine Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works the nightshift, driving his cab throughout decaying mid 70s New York City, wishing for a real rain to wash the scum off the neonlit streets. Chronically alone, Travis cannot connect with anyone, not even with such other cabbies as blowhard Wizard (Peter Boyle). He becomes infatuated with vapid blonde presidential campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), 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 Scorsese), 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 (Jodie Foster) from he