Chicago Cab

aka: Hellcab
USA 1998, 95 minutes
Dir. Mary Cybulski, John Tintori
Rating: [M]
Genres: Comedy / Independent, Black Comedy

Feat. John Cusack, Gillian Anderson, Julianne Moore, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Ironside, John C. Reilly, Paul Dillon, Michael Shannon

Aroview: Bleak black comedy based around a day in the life of a Chicago cab-driver (Dillon) in the lead up to Christmas, who becomes confessor to his passenger's various burdens.

Based on a stageplay by Will Kern, this manages an inventive array of incidents (enabled by various star cameos), which describe the humour, despair and delusions of modern life. Certainly this plays on the consistent weirdness of the fares, yet underneath makes a compelling statement on loneliness.