Taxi (1998 film)
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| Directed by | Gérard Pirès |
| Written by | Luc Besson |
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| Cinematography | Jean-Pierre Sauvaire |
| Edited by | Véronique Lange |
| Music by | Akhenaton |
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| Distributed by | ARP Sélection |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $8.7 million |
| Box office | $44.5 million |
Taxi is a 1998 French buddy cop comedy film starring Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal and Marion Cotillard, written by Luc Besson and directed by Gérard Pirès. The film follows a talented driver working a taxi in Marseille, who reluctantly must help a bumbling police inspector catch a gang of professional bank robbers.
It is the first installment in the Taxi film series, which has four sequels: Taxi 2 (2000), Taxi 3 (2003), Taxi 4 (2007), and Taxi 5 (2018).