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| Directed by | Gérard Pirès |
| Produced by | Michele Petin Laurent Petin |
| Written by | Luc Besson |
| Starring | Samy Naceri Frédéric Diefenthal Marion Cotillard Manuela Gourary Emma Sjoberg Bernard Farcy |
| Music by | Akhenaton |
| Cinematography | Jean-Pierre Sauvaire |
| Distributed by | France ARP Sélection Lions Gate Entertainment (US) |
| Release date(s) | 8 April 1998 |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Language | French |
| Budget | FRF 53,000,000 |
Taxi is a 1998 French action-comedy film starring Samy Naceri, written by Luc Besson, and directed by Gérard Pirès.
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The film takes place in Marseille, France, and involves an aspiring racecar driver named Daniel (Naceri), who initially works as a pizza delivery boy, but changes jobs to become a taxi driver. With a supercharged engine he eludes the police while quickly transporting his fares to their destinations. Finally caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he is forced to help Émilien (Frédéric Diefenthal), a down-on-his-luck police inspector, on the trail of German bank robbers. Trying to juggle a budding relationship with his beautiful girlfriend Lilly (Marion Cotillard) and a need for high-speed chases, Daniel helps Émilien so that he does not lose his license and quite possibly his job.
In terms of box office admissions, the "Taxi" series is one of the most successful French franchises ever, grossing a reported total of $200 million worldwide and 23 million admissions in France.[1]
An American remake titled Taxi, was released in 2004 and starred Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon and Gisele Bündchen.. The 2004 Bollywood film Dhoom also draws heavily on the plot of Taxi.
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