Taxi Driver Parent Guide

You're only as healthy as you feel...

Release date February 9, 1976

Travis Bickle is not a well man: the former Marine and Vietnam veteran has come back to New York, but is increasingly sickened by the violence and depravity he sees driving a taxi. Romantically obsessed with Betsy, a campaign worker for a Senator, and determined to rescue Iris, a twelve-year-old prostitute, Bickle starts to think about what he needs to do to save the city.

Why is Taxi Driver rated R? The MPA rated Taxi Driver R

Run Time: 114 minutes

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Why is Taxi Driver rated R? Taxi Driver is rated R by the MPAA

Frequent use of the sexual expletive, some in a sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, cursing, and vulgar expressions; frequent use of sexual and ethno-cultural slurs
Infrequent use of crude sexual language
Infrequent portrayals of gun and weapons violence – some blood, detail
Infrequent portrayals of and references to sexual activity – buttock nudity, little detail
Infrequent references to drug use for recreational activity

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Cast and Crew

Taxi Driver is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, and Albert Brooks..