Jodie Foster received an Oscar nomination for playing 12-year-old prostitute Iris in this film, and there is strength in her performance to merit that. The age of the film shows, though, and while apparently ground breaking at its time, it hasn't aged very well in many respects. The main character is a taxi driver called Travis (Robert De Niro), a mentally unstable Vietnam vet who takes on a mission to clean up all the filth he sees in New York.

You can read plenty of praise about the movie elsewhere, but to us, Taxi Driver is a rather slow-paced, dark drama which while not bad, offers little new to today's audience. Jodie was 14 while making the film and looks the age, especially with her somewhat precocious mannerisms.

Were Jodie's performance in the film not so well known, we wouldn't have included this movie in Young Actress Reviews. Jodie's role receives less screen time and development than you'd think given its fame.