Night on Earth
| Release Date: | Oct 1991 |
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| Genres | Drama / Comedy |
| Duration: | 129 min |
| Cast: | 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), |
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.

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