Leigh Sales
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He is a Vietnam vet who is extremely messed up and lonely and he's... Drives a taxi, I'm assuming.
So he has these kind of weird interactions with people that he's driving around, but that's the only people that he talks to ever.
And he starts getting this kind of...
He's going to make a big impression.
He's going to show them all.
He starts to get politically involved in a candidate's campaign.
He develops this crush on the candidate's campaign manager, played by Cybill Shepherd, and he develops a relationship with a young sex worker, played by Jodie Foster, who's 14, 15, incredibly youthful.
The film is directed by... When you say develops a relationship with her, like a friendship or a romantic relationship?
Yeah, it's a kind of a complicated, weird sort of protective-y friendship sort of thing.
Do you know, it's been ages since I saw it.
The iconic parts of the film are the parts when he's alone in his room and he's like starting to shave his hair into a mohawk later in the movie and he's kind of...
He's got a gun and he's kind of becoming a kind of separatist militia type all on his own.
And the famous passage from the film is where he's looking in the mirror.