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Taxi Driver
Why this pick
A nocturnal, subjective descent into isolation and grievance, driven by another man who mistakes personal loneliness for a mandate to violently correct a corrupt society.
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MOVIE2004 1h 35m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1973, 43-year-old Philadelphia resident Samuel Byck (Sean Penn) is a down on his luck salesman who desperately wishes to reconcile with his estranged wife Marie (Naomi Watts). A constant moralizer, he states that he stopped working at the tire shop owned by his brother Julius (Michael Wincott) because he would lie to his customers. Believes that society's discrimination affects poor white people just as much as it does African American, he attempts to join the Black Panthers. His dream is to own his own mobile tire sales business in partnership with his best friend, African-American mechanic Bonny (Don Cheadle).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Naomi Watts
Marie Bicke
Mykelti Williamson
Harold Mann
April Grace
Mae Simmons
Lily Knight
Receptionist
Sean Penn
Samuel Bicke
Don Cheadle
Bonny Simmons
Jack Thompson
Jack Jones
Nick Searcy
Tom Ford