A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationship with the political campaign worker Betsy, leads to an inevitable descent into psychosis and violence.

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Paul Schrader is a noted critic, screenwriter and director. By his mid-twenties he had already been a film reviewer for the LA Free Press, while a graduate student at UCLA; editor of his own magazine, Cinema; Fellow in Criticism of the American Film Institute; and author of the uncompromising Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer. By the mid-seventies he was one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, eventually writing three films for Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ. His directorial achievments include Blue Collar, American Gigolo, Mishima, Patty Hearst, The Comfort of Strangers, and Light Sleeper.

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