Night on Earth

– An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.80 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 9 Minutes
Release Year:
1991
Night on Earth (1991)

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Night on Earth (1991) - Trailer

Release Date:

12 Dec 1991

Language:

English, French, Finnish, Italian, German

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Jim Jarmusch

Writer:

Jim Jarmusch

Main Actors:

Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Lisanne Falk, Alan Randolph Scott

Plot:

A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination.

Production:

Criterion Collection

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
Metacritic:
68%