Over the course of a long, hot summer, disturbed cab driver Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) reaches out to two women, campaign worker Betsy (Cybil Shepard) and teenage runaway Iris (Jodie Foster), seeking to save them from the men he sees as controlling them, political candidate Charles Palatine (Leonard Harris) and pimp Sport (Harvey Keitel). When he fails to convince either woman to trust him, he will turn to violence...![]()
