{"id":1317,"date":"2024-07-25T04:16:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T04:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2024-10-13T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T23:43:34","slug":"d-c-cab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/07\/25\/d-c-cab\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Cab"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"D.C. Cab <\/strong>(1983)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 100 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, racial epithets, nudity, sexual references, some violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Joel Schumacher\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Topper Carew and Joel Schumacher\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Giorgio Moroder\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Dean Cundey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 16, 1983 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Max Gail, Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Charlie Barnett, Gary Busey, Gloria Gifford, Marsha Warfield, Bill Maher, DeWayne Jessie, Paul Rodriguez, Whitman Mayo, The Barbarian Brothers, Jose Perez, Anne DeSalvo, Irene Cara, Jill Schoelen, Bob Zmuda, Jim Moody, Diana Bellamy, Scott Nemes, Senta Moses, Denise Gordy, Alfredine P. Brown, John Diehl, Bonnie Keith, J.W. Smith, Dennis Stewart, Paula Earlette Davis, Michael Elliot Hill, Newton D. Arnold.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $16M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ****<\/p>\n

\u00a0I saw D.C. Cab <\/strong>with my friend Bill on Christmas Eve \u201883 and I knew walking in it was going to be funny. I thoroughly enjoy this feel-good comedy about a struggling Washington D.C. taxi company that could easily be mistaken for Delta House if not for all the junky cabs. It\u2019s owned by Harold (Gail, Barney Miller), a Vietnam vet who tries to keep his drivers under control in order to avoid being shut down by an unsympathetic hack inspector, Mr. Bravo (Perez, The Sting II). It\u2019s not always an easy job.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Hope arrives in the form of Albert (Baldwin, My Bodyguard), the son of Harold\u2019s old army buddy. Following his father\u2019s death, Albert comes to D.C. to become a cab driver. He\u2019s an enthusiastic young man; unfortunately, the other drivers see their occupation as a dead end. They\u2019re a motley bunch, these hacks. They are Samson (Mr. T, Rocky III), a decent man who wants to help the neighborhood children; Tyrone (comedian Barnett), a smart ass always looking for ways to rip off passengers; Xavier (Rodriguez, Born In East L.A.) who sees himself as a gigolo; twins Buddy and Buzzy (bodybuilders Peter and David Barbarian), muscular dudes that can turn the cab of an 18-wheeler on its front end effortlessly; Bob (comedian Maher), a promising musician; Ophelia (Warfield, Night Court), a single mom just trying to get by; reggae guy Bongo (Jessie aka Otis Day from Animal House) and conspiracy nut Dell (Busey, Lethal Weapon). And we mustn\u2019t forget Mr. Rhythm (Mayo, Sanford & Son), the homeless guy that sleeps in an abandoned cab and dispenses words of wisdom for the low, low price of a quarter. It\u2019s like the Island of Misfit Toys.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Harold is married to a shrew named Myrna (DeSalvo, Arthur) who can\u2019t stand the drivers. Or Harold, for that matter. She screws him and his employees over big time when she claims the $10,000 reward for the valuable violin left behind in one of the cabs. Harold was going to use the money to make a success of D.C. Cab. The drivers are ready to quit when Albert offers to invest his $6000 inheritance; that is, after he makes an inspirational speech. Things start looking up for the company until a trio of kidnappers grabs Albert along with an ambassador\u2019s two children.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Personally, I think D.C. Cab<\/strong> is AWESOME! It\u2019s awesomely funny and awesomely entertaining. It features a very talented cast including Jill Schoelen (The Stepfather) in her film debut. She plays Claudette, a waitress Albert is interested in romantically. She\u2019s so charming and what a great smile.<\/p>\n

\u00a0D.C. Cab<\/strong> works primarily because director Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys) utilizes the strengths of each performer. At the time of its release, Mr. T was riding high on the popularity of The A-Team. It was marketed by Universal as a starring vehicle for him. He\u2019s NOT actually the star, but he is a big presence in the movie basically playing himself. Barnett is a riot as Tyrone. He tries to pass himself off as a \u201ccrazy dumb ass n-word\u201d but nothing could be further from the truth. He gets some choice lines like when Bravo tells a driver not to end a sentence with a preposition to which Tyrone replies, \u201c”Okay, so where you at, a**hole?” Mayo is funny as the oddball voice of reason. Really, the whole cast is great.<\/p>\n

\u00a0D.C. Cab <\/strong>plays like a Disney movie albeit one with cursing, nudity and racist comments. Its R rating should have kept it off limits to young children, but there were a lot of children in the audience at the matinee my friend and I attended. Honestly, I can think of worse movies to take the little ones to see. It\u2019s a good-natured underdog comedy with a great soundtrack. The theme song \u201cThe Dream\u201d is sung by Irene Cara who makes a cameo appearance as herself. The kidnapping subplot adds excitement to the mix with a cool car chase at the end. I have absolutely no complaints about this movie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I ended up seeing D.C. Cab <\/strong>three times at the movies including once on a double bill with The Keep (great underappreciated horror flick!). I\u2019ve seen it many times on VHS and DVD and never get tired of it. It always makes me laugh. It puts 95% of recent comedies to shame. It\u2019s GREAT!<\/p>\n

BTW, be sure to watch to the very end of the credits for a bonus scene featuring Timothy Carey (The Killing of a Chinese Bookie).\"\"<\/p>\n

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D.C. Cab (1983)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 100 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, racial epithets, nudity, sexual references, some violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Joel Schumacher\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Topper Carew and Joel Schumacher\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Giorgio Moroder\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Dean Cundey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 16, 1983 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Max Gail, Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Charlie Barnett, Gary Busey, Gloria Gifford, Marsha Warfield, Bill Maher, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies","category-thats-some-funny-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/D.C.-Cab-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}