Night on Earth (1991) on Netflix
Five cab drivers work the same night in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki. Their fares include a casting director, a blind woman, a priest and three drunken men.
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Plot summary
At seven in the evening, Corky drives her cab in Los Angeles and picks up Victoria Snelling, a Hollywood casting director who works the phones on the ride to her Beverly Hills home. Corky says her ambition is to be a mechanic. In New York, Helmut Grokenberger, an East German immigrant who once worked as a clown, is driving a cab for the first time and gets lost; his passenger YoYo, headed for Brooklyn, takes the wheel and pulls his sister-in-law Angela into the car. In Paris, a cabbie from the Ivory Coast drops two mocking diplomats, then carries a young blind woman. In Rome, Gino picks up a priest. In Helsinki, Mika collects three drunk men who are hauling an unconscious friend.
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- Anthony Portilloas Rock Musician #2
- Noel Kaufmannas Man on Motorcycle
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Night on Earth (1991)
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- Writer-director Jim Jarmusch wrote the entire screenplay for this five-city taxi anthology, spanning Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki, in only about eight days.
- Jarmusch picked several of the film's five cities not for the story but because of which actors he wanted to cast, building the segments' settings around the performers rather than the other way round.
