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Night on Earth (1991)

R 12/12/1991 Comedy, Drama 2h 8m
75%
User
Score
7.7/10
77%
68/100

Five taxis. Five cities. One night.

Overview

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Jim Jarmusch

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder

Corky

Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands

Victoria Snelling

Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Esposito

YoYo

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Helmut Grokenberger

Rosie Perez

Rosie Perez

Angela

Isaach de Bankolé

Isaach de Bankolé

Cab Driver Paris

Béatrice Dalle

Béatrice Dalle

Blind Woman

Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni

Cab Driver Rome

Paolo Bonacelli

Paolo Bonacelli

Priest

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Media

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Reviews

A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

Written on December 13, 2023

**In short, cities at night are beautiful, and taxi drivers generally drive poorly.**

This film focuses on five short stories that happened at almost the same time and on the same night to five taxi drivers in five cities: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki. Directed and written by Jim Jarmusch, it is not a pretentious film, quite the opposite, and does what films should do: entertain us with five good stories. Obviously, being Jarmusch, these stories touch on a lot of the more human side of common characters.

Regarding the stories told in the film, we can summarize them in a message that will not please taxi drivers: in this film, they drive terribly badly and are unlikely to prove competent in their work. The story set in Los Angeles is perhaps the most uninteresting b...

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