Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.
Acting
Robin Wright's unraveling is genuinely terrifying to witness.
Direction
Stanzler weaponizes uncomfortable silences like nobody's business.
Director
Jeff Stanzler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just 18 days on a micro-budget, with much of the cab footage being genuinely spontaneous in NYC traffic.
The film was barely released in 2005—audiences weren't ready to examine white female fragility as terrorism adjacent.
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