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| Director Jim Jarmusch's episodic slice-of-life drama follows the adventures of five different cabdrivers in five different cities all over the world. In Los Angeles, a young female driver (Winona Ryder) charms her snooty passenger--an agent (Gena Rowlands) who believes she's found her latest star in the tomboyish cabbie. In New York, a man (Giancarlo Esposito) gets into a taxi only to find that his immigrant driver (Armin Mueller-Stahl) has no idea how to drive. The Paris segment features an angry sightless woman (Beatrice Dalle) who provokes her African driver (Isaach de Bankole). In Rome, Roberto Benigni stars as a hyperactive taxi driver who confesses his odd sexual practices to a clergyman (Paolo Bonacelli) and is shocked when the priest has a heart attack. The film's climactic scene in Helsinki follows a cabdriver who listens to a tragic and poignant tale from one of his three inebriated passengers only to top him with his own, sadder story. Colorfully photographed by Frederick Elmes, NIGHT ON EARTH... |
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Key Information
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| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Directors: |
Jim Jarmusch |
| Actors: |
Armin Mueller-Stahl · Giancarlo Esposito · Roberto Benigni · Rosie Perez |
| Stars: |
Gena Rowlands · Winona Ryder |
| UPC: |
715515025423, 794043419638 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 8min |
| Available Formats: |
DVD, VHS |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Subgenre: |
Short Stories |
| Release Date: |
1991 |
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| Original Language: |
English |
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VHS Editions
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- VHS
- 2hr 8min
- New Line Home Video
- December 02, 1992
- R (MPAA)
- 794043419638
- Sound Features: HiFi, Stereo
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Professional Reviews
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(05/01/1992, p.7D, Mike Clark): "...[A] cutely clever premise....Minimalist filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has gone maximum..." , (05/08/1992, p.44, Roger Ebert): "...Jarmusch is a poet of the night. Much of NIGHT ON EARTH creates the same kind of lonely, elegiac, romantic mood of MYSTERY TRAIN...", (05/08/1992, p.F8, Peter Rainer): "...[The] film has a gentle ease....The deliberate, even rhythms give the brief stories an almost fated quality...", (05/15/1992, p.40-2, Owen Gleiberman): "...NIGHT ON EARTH is a series of off-the-wall duets....There are moments that catch you delightfully off guard...", (08/01/2005, p.86, Matthew Leyland): "The stories produce a powerful cumulative effect.", (10/04/1991, p.C1, Vincent Canby): "...Delirious....Jarmusch agains demonstrates his mastery of the comedy of the oblique...", (11/01/1991, p.50-3, Robert Horton): "...Jarmusch may be the first great American director to specialize in downtime....Jarmusch is a classical filmmaker..." |
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