Synopsis
Night on Earth (1991) 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. ??Ed Sutton

Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations
Budget: $3,500,000 (estimated)
Worldwide Gross: $2,023,808
Soundtrack: Back in the Good Old World (Written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan)


Jim Jarmusch
Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Lisanne Falk
1991-12-12 (France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Japan)
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