Product Description

It's the darkest day of the year - winter solstice - 6:00 a.m. andi20 degrees below zero when an unsuspecting cab driver picks up his first fare. Unaware of what's to take place the cabby drops the strange passengers setting into motion an unstoppable unalterable unfathomable series of events. It's as if the cab mysteriously draws the most bizarre and dysfunctional people in the city. Exhausted and afraid the driver summons all his courage to make it through his shift but will he survive what's become the longest night of his life?System Requirements: Running Time 96 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 031398172093 Manufacturer No: 17209

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86320 in DVD
• Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
• Released on: 2005-03-15
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 96 minutes

Customer Reviews

Excellent Play, Very Good Film
Will Kern's "Hellcab" is an excellent play by a talented writer, and like many stage productions, a risky transfer for the big screen, but the list of executive producers alone would indicate that several money-players in Hollywood felt the story was worth the effort. Is the movie up to the standards of the play? Probably not, but it is still a damn good film and perfect for those cerebral evenings where action and physical comedy take a backseat to highly literate cinematic entertainment.

Where to?
This is the way it is--and we know that. Film consists of a series of vignettes--as it should, because that's the cab business, the way it is for any cabbie: people get in, people get out--and most you never see again (if you're a cab driver in any big city.)
And yet, this is what hurts the movie. The actors are not to blame, because this is one amazing cast; neither are the directors (there were two; it was co-directed) it comes down to the writing.

The reason Scorcese's Taxi Driver works as well as it does (for the most part) is because the DeNero character did a lot more than just drive around New York dealing with abnoxiius and/or insane fares; there was an actual storyline that went somewhere and took the audiance along for the duration of the ride.

dark humor, Cusack treat
An admirer of John Cusack, am collecting all of his films. This is a darkly humorous look at the adventures of a cab driver. Cusack's bit was great, but too short.