D.C. Cab
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| Directed by | Joel Schumacher |
| Produced by | Topper Carew |
| Screenplay by | Joel Schumacher |
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| Music by | Giorgio Moroder |
| Cinematography | Dean Cundey |
| Edited by | David E. Blewitt |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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100 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7 million |
| Box office | $16,134,627 |
D.C. Cab (also known as Street Fight) is a 1983 American comedy film, starring Max Gail,Adam Baldwin,Mr. T,Charlie Barnett,Gary Busey,Marsha Warfield, and Whitman Mayo. The film was written and directed by Joel Schumacher with the story by Topper Carew & Schumacher.
Naive but good natured young man Albert Hockenberry (Baldwin) arrives in Washington, D.C., with plans to work for his late father's army buddy Harold (Gail), owner of the run-down District of Columbia Cab company. Aware of the sorry state of his business and from the growing competition from the popular Emerald Cab Company, Harold wants to clean it up but doesn't have the financial means to do so. Complicating matters is the motley group of cab drivers that he has working for him. They all see driving as a dead-end job while they wait for better lives, until Albert inspires them to work as a team.
A valuable violin is found in one of the cabs, earning Harold and his wife a $10,000 reward as owners of the cab. Harold wants to share the money with the drivers and let them invest in the cab company as partners. However, his greedy wife Myrna picks up the reward money and tosses Harold and Albert's belongings out of the house. The cabbies are not happy about losing their share of the reward, so Albert decides to donate $6,063 of his own money to the cab company and convinces the drivers to stay and make something of the company and themselves. The cabbies completely overhaul the entire business, and the revitalized company soon supplants Emerald Cab as the most popular in the city.
Later on, the cabbies work together to rescue Albert and a diplomat's two children after they're kidnapped. The movie ends with a parade in D.C. Cab's honor.
D.C. Cab grossed $16,134,627 in theatres.
D.C. Cab received mixed reviews from film critics:
Critic Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars saying, "'D.C. Cab' is not an entirely bad movie, [but] feels like a movie with a split personality. The kidnapping plot was praised for being "fresh," while the stolen violin plot was described as "paralyzingly boring." Overall, he described it as "mindless, likable confusion." Critic Edward Sargent of The Washington Post writes in his review: "Despite its shortcomings, D.C. Cab is an hour and 40 minutes worth of finger-popping music and gags. But viewers should remember that this low-budget film features large doses of vulgarity meant to illicit several cheap laughs.
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