Touchstone Pictures release A car speeds down rain-slickened New York streets.
A lone figure's eyes fill the screen. They are haunted, desperate, as is as his voice on the soundtrack, a voice which tells us he is searching for redemption only to find streets full of violence and decay. If that sounds like the beginning of Taxi Driver, it should. But it's actually a description of Bringing Out the Dead, which like Taxi Driver was written by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese. Like Edward Norton's character in Fight Club , Frank can't sleep, but in Frank's case it's because he's haunted, bedeviled by the ghosts of every patient he's ever lost.