The Other Side Of Midnight (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
– Alex Reiger (Judd Hirsh), Taxi “Neither the company nor the union gives a damn about us. As far as they’re concerned, we’re machines—as wretched as the cabs.” – Lucky Miller, New York City cab driver, from Studs Terkel, Working “We are all born poor.” – Rise Mickenber, Taxi Driver Wisdom In the public’s mind, the St. John’s taxicab driver personifies both the real and the imagined ills of North America’s oldest city. Whereas their habitat was once defined by the harbour and the railway station, it now encompasses the back lot of the airport, Water Street and Adelaide Street, and dozens of strip malls. These are often lonely and sometimes violent places. The popular image of the St. John’s taxicab driver is blue-collar and itinerant, if not criminal and low-life. But their backgrounds are often working class and lower middle-class. Unlike most major mainland cities where upwards of 50 per cent of taxicab drivers are from predominantly Muslim countries, the St.
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