Night on Earth
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Writer: Jim Jarmusch
- Producer: Masahiro Inbe; Demetra J. MacBride
CGiii Comment
5 dull tales - from the perspectives of cab drivers...from different countries.
It is as uninteresting as it sounds.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Gena Rowlands as Victoria Snelling;
Winona Ryder as Corky;
Lisanne Falk as Rock Manager;
Alan Randolph Scott as Rock Musician #1;
Anthony Portillo as Rock Musician #2;
Armin Mueller-Stahl as Helmut Grokenberger;
Giancarlo Esposito as YoYo;
Rosie Perez as Angela;
Richard Boes as Cab Driver #1;
Isaach De Bankol- as Driver - Paris