Product Details

• Actors: Gillian Anderson, Laurie Metcalf
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: March 15, 2005
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00079HZSY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,004 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

It's the darkest day of the year - winter solstice - 6:00 a.m. andi20 degrees below zero when an unsuspecting cab driver picks up his first fare. Unaware of what's to take place the cabby drops the strange passengers setting into motion an unstoppable unalterable unfathomable series of events. It's as if the cab mysteriously draws the most bizarre and dysfunctional people in the city. Exhausted and afraid the driver summons all his courage to make it through his shift but will he survive what's become the longest night of his life?System Requirements: Running Time 96 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 031398172093 Manufacturer No: 17209

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Play, Very Good Film, August 19, 2006

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Juke Jar (Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hell Cab (DVD)

Will Kern's "Hellcab" is an excellent play by a talented writer, and like many stage productions, a risky transfer for the big screen, but the list of executive producers alone would indicate that several money-players in Hollywood felt the story was worth the effort. Is the movie up to the standards of the play? Probably not, but it is still a damn good film and perfect for those cerebral evenings where action and physical comedy take a backseat to highly literate cinematic entertainment.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hellcab, December 16, 2009

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A. Pierre (Somewheres) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hell Cab (DVD)

I just saw this film in a pile of other unknown dvds at a liquidation store. It sounds like a horror film in the vein of Bone Collector. However, this is far from what you'd expect. It's about a taxi driver who picks up various people, most of them are Hollywood stars, and they talk about problems. It's not a bad movie and it's well acted but I wish they would have choosen a different title for the movie. They also say it takes on one day which is the longest of the year but it seems days pass before the movie ends. A minor problem but it is worth watching at least once.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Where to?, July 2, 2008

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Kirk Alex - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hell Cab (DVD)

This is the way it is--and we know that. Film consists of a series of vignettes--as it should, because that's the cab business, the way it is for any cabbie: people get in, people get out--and most you never see again (if you're a cab driver in any big city.)
And yet, this is what hurts the movie. The actors are not to blame, because this is one amazing cast; neither are the directors (there were two; it was co-directed) it comes down to the writing.

The reason Scorcese's Taxi Driver works as well as it does (for the most part) is because the DeNero character did a lot more than just drive around New York dealing with abnoxiius and/or insane fares; there was an actual storyline that went somewhere and took the audiance along for the duration of the ride.