Director:
Michael Mann (Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Heat)

Screenwriter(s):
Stuart Beattie ... (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
Frank Darabont .. (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption)

Cinematographer:
Dion Beebe ... (In the Cut, Chicago, Equilibrium)

Actors:
Tom Cruise
Jamie Foxx (Max)
Paul Adelstein
Javier Bardem
Troy Blendell (Morgue)
Irma P. Hall
Kyu Lee (Patron)
Daniel Luján (Rubio)
Bruce McGill (Pedrosa)
Jada Pinkett Smith (Annie)
Emilio Rivera (Paco)
Mark Ruffalo
Peter Berg

SYNOPSIS __________

Plot:
Max (Jamie Foxx) has lived the mundane life of a cab driver for 12 years. The faces have come and gone from his rearview mirror, people and places he's long since forgotten...until tonight.

Vincent (Tom Cruise) is a contract killer. When an offshore narcotrafficking cartel learns they're about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witnesses, and the last stage is tonight. Tonight, Vincent arrived in L.A...and five bodies are supposed to fall.

Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max's taxicab, and Max becomes collateral-an expendable person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the LAPD and FBI race to intercept them, Max and Vincent's survival becomes dependent on each other in ways neither would have imagined.

DETAILS__________

Studio:
DreamWorks
Paramount Pictures

Release Date:
August 6, 2004

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+ Director Michael Mann with the
Viper FilmStream digital camera