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Director:
Writer:
Jim Jarmusch (written by)
Release Date:
12 December 1991 (Germany)
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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
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Anthology
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Pill
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Rome Italy
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Awards:
1 win
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NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Another trite, po-faced, clever-clever Jim Jarmusch movie … still, I'll be back for more
(From The Guardian - Film News. 4 December 2009, 4:11 PM, PST)
Maltz Jupiter's Greatest Night On Earth Raises $375,000
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 28 January 2009, 2:17 PM, PST)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 4 December 2009, 4:11 PM, PST)
Maltz Jupiter's Greatest Night On Earth Raises $375,000
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 28 January 2009, 2:17 PM, PST)
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5 little stories, 5 cities, 4 languages - surprising
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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 (as Pascal Nzonzi) | |
| Emile Abossolo M'bo | ... | Passenger #2 (as Émile Abossolo-M'bo) | |
| Stéphane Boucher | ... | Man in Accident (as Stephane Boucher) | |
| Noel Kaufmann | ... | Man on Motorcycle |
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence, language, and some drug use.
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Runtime:
129 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L |
Singapore:M18 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:M |
Finland:S |
France:U |
Germany:16 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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The song the Rome taxi driver tries to sing is the traditional song, "The Streets of Laredo", also known as "The Cowboy's Lament".
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Goofs:
Continuity: Winona Rider's character opens up a trunk through the missing rear window, but then in the next shot the window is there again.
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Good Old World
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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.