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Night on Earth (1991)

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User Rating: 7.5/10 (10,357 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Jim Jarmusch
Writer:
Jim Jarmusch (writer)
Release Date:
12 December 1991 (Germany) more view trailer
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
Five Taxis. Five Cities. One Night.
Plot:
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night. full summary | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
5 little stories, 5 cities, 4 languages - surprising more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)
Gena Rowlands ... Victoria Snelling

Winona Ryder ... Corky
Lisanne Falk ... Rock Manager
Alan Randolph Scott ... Rock Musician #1
Anthony Portillo ... Rock Musician #2

Armin Mueller-Stahl ... Helmut Grokenberger

Giancarlo Esposito ... YoYo

Rosie Perez ... Angela
Richard Boes ... Cab Driver #1
Isaach De Bankolé ... Driver (Paris)
Béatrice Dalle ... Blind Woman
Pascal N'Zonzi ... Passenger #1
Emile Abossolo M'bo ... Passenger #2
Stéphane Boucher ... Man in Accident
Noel Kaufmann ... Man on Motorcycle
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
LANewYorkParisRomeHelsinki (USA) (working title)
Une nuit sur terre (France)
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Runtime:
129 min
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
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Trivia:
The original title of the film was (all small characters) "lanewyorkparisromehelsinki". more
Quotes:
Paris Driver: Don't blind people usually wear dark glasses?
Blind Woman: Do they? I've never seen a blind person.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Cycle-Delic more

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13 out of 20 people found the following comment useful:-
5 little stories, 5 cities, 4 languages - surprising, 6 January 2002
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Author: Mort-31 from Vienna, Austria

A fantastic piece of entertainment: five little stories, five cities, four languages. That's all. This movie has no message but it portrays five regions of the world most sensitively.

The L.A. episode is the weakest. It is not bad but it has one big problem: it is the first one. People start watching the movie and expect something sensational. This first episode cannot present anything spectacular, only first class character acting. There are no big surprises or twists, the episode is not particularly funny or anything. Honestly, when I saw the first minutes of this movie I thought: `O dear, I'm going to fall asleep!'

Then, the N.Y. story came. This one made me laugh real hard, and it made Armin Mueller Stahl one of my favourite actors. I started to love this movie, and I was well prepared for the Paris episode, which is, in my opinion the best, the most satisfying of them.

I found the story of the Roberto Benigni episode rather stupid, but his talent in exaggerating (so he did this even seven years before 1999's Oscar ceremony!) made up for it.

Then, the huge contrast: The liveliest episode is followed by the dreariest. Finnish workers tell each other stories from their lives, each trying to tell the saddest.

`Night on Earth' is not a movie for everybody but I think it is, in any case, the ideal movie to watch on television at two o'clock in the morning.

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