Former Marine and veteran of the Vietnam War Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) is an insomnia suffering and mentally unstable taxi driver in the heart of New York City. With his controversial opinion's making him an outcast loner, he begin's to become infatuated with Betsy (Cybill Sheperd), who is working on the US Presidential campaign of Senator Charles Palatine (Leonard Harris). Bickle begin's to see himself as a anti-hero that society desperately need's and soon goes about trying to save a twelve year old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster) from her pimp.

Former Marine and veteran of the Vietnam War Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) is an insomnia suffering and mentally unstable taxi driver in the heart of New York City. With his controversial opinion's making him an outcast loner, he begin's to become infatuated with Betsy (Cybill Sheperd), who is working on the US Presidential campaign of Senator Charles Palatine (Leonard Harris). Bickle begin's to see himself as a anti-hero that society desperately need's and soon goes about trying to save a twelve year old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster) from her pimp.

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