It takes remarkable artistic cojones to open your film with Robert De Niro walking into a taxi-dispatch office, getting into a cab, and driving out onto the mean streets, but that’s exactly how director Paul Weitz chooses to open
Being Flynn. That decision forces us to make constant comparisons to Martin Scorsese’s iconic
Taxi Driver, and it does Weitz’s film a terrible disservice.
The movie actually stars Paul Dano as Nick Flynn, a young man in his twenties floundering his way through the big city who, after being dumped by his girlfriend for cheating on her, ends up working at a homeless shelter. His goal is to write, in part because his father...
Released:
2012
Rated:
R
Length:
86 mins