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Night on earth [digital videodisc] / Janus Films ; JVC presents in association with Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Victor Musical Industries, Inc., Pyramide/LeStudio Canal Plus, Pandora Film and Channel 4 ; a Locus Solus production ; written, produced, and directed by Jim Jarmusch.

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[United States] : Criterion Collection, 2007.

Taxicabs -- Drama.

City and town life -- Drama.

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Drama.

New York (N.Y.) -- Drama.

Paris (France) -- Drama.

Rome (Italy) -- Drama.

Helsinki (Finland) -- Drama.

Criterion collection 401.

1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

[Widescreen ed.], special ed.

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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