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Taxi Driver(1976)
Released
1976 · FILM

Taxi Driver

A lonely, mentally unstable Vietnam veteran turned night-shift taxi driver in New York City becomes increasingly alienated from society, fixated on a campaign worker, and consumed by violent fantasies to cleanse the city's corruption.

“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.”

Directed by
Martin Scorsese, William Eustace
Written by
Paul Schrader
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
114 min
CrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

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.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 145+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tom RolfShot by Michael ChapmanScored by Bernard HerrmannSound by Dick Alexander Nm1219804Costumes by Ruth Morley

Box Office

1976 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 15× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$28.6M

Budget$1.9M
Worldwide gross$28.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

19968 theaters
$274K($577K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Versions & cuts

  • cut· 110 min

Also known as

  • (literal title)Motorista de Táxi
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United StatesFeb 8, 1976
  • CanadaMar 19, 1976
  • BrazilMar 22, 1976
  • IndonesiaApr 2, 1976

Companies

ProductionColumbia Pictures, Bill/Phillips, Italo/Judeo Productions

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