The Driver (1978)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
The Driver	Ryan O'Neal	½
The Detective	Bruce Dern	½
The Player	Isabelle Adjani	½
The Connection	Ronee Blakley

Review

The Driver is a stylish, detached and antisocial tribute to driving for the sake of driving and crime for the sake of crime, made at a time when those things still had a palpable meaning for most big-city Americans. The writer/director is Walter Hill, penner of the not too dissimilar cult film The Getaway a few years earlier. And although he made more successful films later on (notably 48 Hrs.), The Driver is arguably among his most gutsy and hard-hitting. It's worth a watch for the fervour it represents and instils, if nothing else.