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Taxi
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Taxi is a 1998 French film directed by Gérard Pirès and written and produced by Luc Besson. The cast includes Samy Naceri, Marion Cotillard, Emma Wiklund, and Frédéric Diefenthal. Set and filmed in Marseille, the movie features a narrative centered on organized crime. It is classified as a crime, buddy, action, and comedy film. The original language of the work is French, German, Korean, and Portuguese.
The film has a runtime of 86 minutes, though some sources list it as 89 minutes. It was distributed by Starz Entertainment and produced by EuropaCorp, ARP Sélection, TF1 Films Production, and StudioCanal. The composer is Akhenaton. Taxi is part of the Taxi series and was followed by Taxi 2. Derivative works include Taxi and Taxi Brooklyn.
The film received a rating of 7.0 on IMDb based on 95,338 votes, while TMDb reports a vote average of 6.718 from 2,707 votes. It has a budget of 8,700,000 and generated revenue of 44,218,015. The film has received 3 wins and 5 nominations.
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6.7In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.
Cast
- Samy Naceri as Daniel Morales
- Frédéric Diefenthal as Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec
- Marion Cotillard as Lilly Bertineau
- Manuela Gourary as Camille Coutant-Kerbalec
- Emma Wiklund as Petra
- Bernard Farcy as Commissaire Gibert
Themes
- taxi
- taxi driver
- marseille, france
- pizza boy
- pizza delivery
- police officer
- bank robbery
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Ratings
IMDb
7/10
95,513 votes
- Year
- 1998
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 3 wins & 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Gérard Pirès
- Written by
- Luc Besson
- Produced by
- Luc Besson Michele Petin Laurent Petin
- Starring
- Samy Naceri Frédéric Diefenthal Marion Cotillard Manuela Gourary Emma Sjöberg Bernard Farcy
- Cinematography
- Jean-Pierre Sauvaire
- Edited by
- Véronique Lange
- Music by
- Akhenaton
- Production companies
- ARP TF1 Films Productions Le Studio Canal+ Cofimage 9 Studio Image 4
- Distributed by
- ARP Sélection
- Release date
- 10 April 1998 ( 1998-04-10 )
- Running time
- 90 minutes
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Budget
- $8.7 million
- Box office
- $44.5 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Taxi is a 1998 French buddy cop comedy film starring Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal and Marion Cotillard, written by Luc Besson and directed by Gérard Pirès. The film follows a talented driver working a taxi in Marseille, who reluctantly must help a bumbling police inspector catch a gang of professional bank robbers.
It is the first installment in the Taxi film series, which has four sequels: Taxi 2 (2000), Taxi 3 (2003), Taxi 4 (2007), and Taxi 5 (2018).
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