Night on Earth Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Genres: Comedy
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Jim_Jarmusch's deadpan comedy-of-the-night is a collection of five vignettes taking place in the enclosed space of a cab ride, each occurring simultaneously in five different cities and five different time zones -- Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. The Los Angeles episode takes place at dusk, as high-powered casting agent Victoria (Gena_Rowlands) gets a ride from L.A. International Airport with tomboy driver Corky (Winona_Ryder), who would rather go on driving her cab than take up Victoria's offer to make her a superstar. In New York City, novice East German cabbie Helmut Grokenberger (Armin Mueller-Stahl) has difficulty working the foot pedals to his hack, and his passenger, YoYo (Giancarlo_Esposito), ends up driving himself to Brooklyn, picking up the shrill-voiced Angela (Rosie_Perez) along the way. In Paris, an African cab driver (Isaach De Bankol
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