A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles – A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver’s career. New York – An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn’t understand. Paris – A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome – A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki – an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.
Release Date: 12 December 1991Runtime: 129 min
Stars:
- Alan Randolph Scott
- Anthony Portillo
- Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Béatrice Dalle
- Emile Abossolo M'bo
- Gena Rowlands
- Giancarlo Esposito
- Isaach De Bankolé
- Lisanne Falk
- Noel Kaufmann
- Pascal N'Zonzi
- Richard Boes
- Rosie Perez
- Stéphane Boucher
- Winona Ryder
Director: Jim Jarmusch
