Simply Perfect

Simply A Masterpiece

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

... but a bad film indeed. I have seen many of the reviews about this film and I agree with the fact that the protagonist was an insensitive clod with high school like pick up techniques that would not amount to much more than getting a date with a back up cheerleader. I believe that the movie was about a taxi driver, with literary skills writing a novel. In other words , this was all fantasy and eventually to be written into a 'bestseller'. There are clues through out this film when images appear and disappear and our protagonist is in a meditational state, at various points in the film. Hints of Michaels imagination were sprinkled through out this film, even at the very end, if you watch closely. That said, This was not a particularly good film. The acting was on the lame side, the story is one that was done many times before and a lot of silliness and unrealistic scenes, even if it was from the standpoint Michael was writing a novel. This was basically , a movie within a movie and I did not feel it worked. I also believe this film glorified cheaters, stalkers and yes even rapists. Michael writing a book or not was not likable and neither was super model Sarah Easton, the chain smoking, giddy, romantic and very married partner in lust. This movie tried to be different and yes even realistic, with the character flaws. It just was a lesson in futility to try and root for any of these people... Part of cabbie Michaels novel or not.

I have searched for this movies for years since I first saw it back in 1999. At that time I have fallen deeply in love with my high school sweet heart. This movie has materialized a lot of the emotions a person experiences when falling. I kept it dear to my heart because of the beautiful poetry and the way how a person can truly relate to it. After spending 10 years looking for this title I finally found it. This movie is for the person who has experienced at least once in their life the real love. Passionate, spontaneous, deep. The chemistry between Schafer and deCadenet is real, like a true story that is waiting to happen to anybody who is ready to accept it. The energy, the romance, the erotic feelings.

Ladies and Gentlmen, whoever said that movies had to be completely based on reality.. but on the possibility that regardless, of the Taxi Cab & Supermodel "Reality".. The passion.. the feeling of intensity.. of wanting and needing someone.. yet beyond just beyond the grasp of your reality.. The romance is exquisite and I recommend this intense piece as a "must see" for lovers.. die-hards and for those who want to re-live the intensity of a past love.. a long-ago love.. or to those that wish for something this intense.. I too, have experienced this type of love.. this.. amazingly erotic.. passion beyond words.. unrequited love.. I have to quote Stefan d. Wenger, "Eric Schaeffer is truly a poet, and the poetry of his characters AND of his direction and acting make this movie just as literate and philosophical as it is sexy and risqué" & "with a bevy of brilliant and memorable lines. As for the film's thematic foundation, watch this movie if you believe in romance, in falling in love, in rushing in headfirst and never looking back, in giving your all to one pursuit or one person or one passion... in not insisting on being so awfully safe"... The music is just as intense as the movie.. I wish there was a soundtrack to buy.. it would be in my collection in a snap! I have always loved this film for it's raw and sometimes graphic sexual passion and romance.. This is my favorite Indie film.. If you don't get it.. you haven't lived it.. so keep living life to the fullest and attempt to take a risk now and then.. Peace.. CJ

Why did i waste my time on this pseudo-intellectual junk? A once famous 'writer' who shuns the trappings of fame to drive a taxi and finds the time to seduce a 'model'...and attractive as she is, she's still 15 bucks too heavy to be a working model. We know he's 'sensitive' because we only see his female friends. A cabbie in NYC with no male friends? Still with me? And we KNOW this is an arty movie because of the title fonts and cards and the digital camera work that passes as 'verite' these days.The mastermind behind this vanity piece, Eric Schaefer directs himself and his first initial 'seduction' of the model, staged like some "9 and 1/2 Weeks" out-take, is a hostile Jewish male fantasy of getting rough with a Teutonic woman and her LOVING him for it! Geez! Another word on this Eric Schaefer character: he looks like Elon Gold, prattles on like James Woods on nose candy, and the film's 'poetry' is akin to something a junior college English major would write.So-called 'important' and 'adult' romances like this are the death knell for independent cinema. First Miramax, then Dogma 95, then this? I'll take a cheesy LIFETIME or HALLMARK movie over excrement like this any day of the week.