The story of a mans journey into maddness and its one hell of a ride! De Niro wow what a performance as the afflicted Travis Bickle,a cabbie whose job and lonliness are wearing him down, he starts a obbsession with a local  senators campaign worker Betsy played by (Cybill Shepherd) he actually gets  here on a date and the guy takes her to a ... well I'll leave that out for  those of you who havn't seen the movie yet. The lines in this movie are  classics and people well into the next century will be using the line Ya  talkin ta me? Some other memorable characters are Iris the teenage runaway  hooker played by (Jodie Foster) as a young girl at the time,and her pimp  named Sport played by (Harvey Keitel). The ending is a mind blower  seriously,you get to see De Niro in a mowhawk, and here Keitel say (hey pal  you better get back to your tribe before I have ta hurt ya! A great one  man,the DVD has alot of nice extras too like a script by scene follow  along,and a cool storyboard follow along too,a very worthy purchase,I  reccomend ya by it.