Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite “Character Study Ever” Is Officially Streaming

Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film *Taxi Driver*, starring Robert De Niro, has been added to free streaming service Pluto TV. Its arrival gives new viewers access to a landmark of American cinema that helped establish Scorsese and made De Niro a star.

Written by Paul Schrader, the film follows a lonely New York taxi driver who becomes a vigilante after seeing a young girl being exploited. Made for a reported budget of under $2 million, it earned about $30 million at the box office and drew controversy over its violence. Quentin Tarantino praised it as “the greatest first-person character study ever committed to film”.