On every street in every city in this country, there's a nobody who dreams of being somebody. He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive.
Taxi Driver
43Standing
663rd of 1,098 in Hollywood
- Out-grossed 15% of Hollywood releases with reported figures ($29M).
- Returned 15× its budget, against an industry median of 3.1×.
- Momentum in the 0th percentile.
- Audience rating 8.1 from 13,840 votes, the 97th percentile.
- Cost
- $2M
- Took
- $29M
Blockbuster15.0× its cost
Against a Hollywood median of 3.1×, so this one returned 4.8 times what a typical release there does.
The money says blockbuster. What do you say?
The picture
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
- Released
- 9 February 1976
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Language
- English
- Industry
- Hollywood
Top billedAll 21 credits
- Robert De NiroTravis Bickle
- Jodie FosterIris
- Cybill ShepherdBetsy
- Harvey KeitelSport
- Peter BoyleWizard
- Leonard HarrisCharles Palantine
Made by
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Writer
- Paul Schrader
- Original Music Composer
- Bernard Herrmann
- Director of Photography
- Michael Chapman
- Producer
- Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
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