Jim
Jarmusch's deadpan comedy-of-the-night is a collection of five vignettes
taking place in the enclosed space of a cab ride, each occurring simultaneously
in five different cities and five different time zones --Los Angeles,
New York City, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. The Los Angeles episode takes
place at dusk, as high-powered casting agent Victoria (Gena Rowlands)
gets a ride from L.A. International Airport with tomboy driver Corky
(Winona Ryder), who would rather
go driving her cab to than take up Victoria's offer to make her a superstar.
In New York City, novice East German cabbie Helmut Grokenberger (Armin
Mueller-Stahl) has difficulty working the foot pedals to his hack and
his passenger, YoYo (Giancarlo Esposito), ends up driving himself to
Brooklyn, picking up the shrill-voiced Angela (Rosie Perez) along the
way. In Paris, an African cab driver (Isaach De Bankole) ejects a collection
of drunken African diplomats from his cab and picks up a beautiful but
surly blind girl (Beatrice Dalle). In Rome, cab driver Gino (Roberto
Begnini) engages in a heartfelt monologue confessing his past sexual
exploits to his passenger, a priest who is dying of a heart attack in
the back seat. The film winds down in the last melancholy vignette,
taking place in Helsinki, as taxi driver Mika (Matti Pellonpaa) picks
up three inebriated workmen who regale Mika with hard luck stories.
But Mika has a much harsher story of his own to tell.
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