"was released, ""A Taxi Driver"" surpassed 10 million viewers selling 10,068,708 tickets, earning a total of . ""A Taxi Driver"" also became the first film of 2017 and the fifteenth Korean film overall to surpass the 10 million milestone. It is also Song Kang-ho's third film to have sold more than 10 million tickets. The film topped the South Korean box office for three consecutive weekends. By August 28, the film had attracted 11.4 million viewers. According to the film's distributor Showbox, the total attendance of the film surpassed the 12 million mark as of September 9, becoming the tenth"
"glad you've got a pretty face, because I worked for 20 years doing that stuff and I feel it's really invaluable; it really taught me a lot.'"" Foster's mother was concerned that her daughter's career would end by the time she grew out of playing children, and decided that to ensure continued work and to gain greater recognition, Foster should also begin acting in films for adult audiences. After the minor supporting role in ""Alice"", Martin Scorsese cast her in the role of a child prostitute in ""Taxi Driver"" (1976). The Los Angeles Welfare Board initially opposed 12-year-old Foster's appearing"
"Awards, including for Best Picture, Best Actor (for De Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (for Foster), ""Taxi Driver"" won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The film generated controversy upon release mostly because of its depiction of violence and casting of a 12-year old Foster as the child prostitute. It is regularly cited by critics, film directors, and audiences alike as one of the greatest films of all time. In 2012, ""Sight & Sound"" named it the 31st-best film ever in its decennial critics' poll, ranked with ""The Godfather Part II"", and the fifth-greatest film of all"
"Taxi Driver Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks and Leonard Harris. Set in a decaying New York City following the Vietnam War, the film tells the story of a lonely veteran (De Niro) working as a taxi driver, who descends into insanity as he plots to assassinate a presidential candidate (Harris) and then the pimp (Keitel) of an underage prostitute (Foster) whom he befriends. Critically acclaimed upon release and nominated for four Academy"
"debut with Disney's ""Napoleon and Samantha"" (1972). Following appearances in the musical ""Tom Sawyer"" (1973) and Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama ""Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"" (1974), Foster's breakthrough came with Scorsese's psychological thriller ""Taxi Driver"" (1976), in which she played a child prostitute; at age 14, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other praised roles as a teenager were in the musical ""Bugsy Malone"" (1976) and the thriller ""The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane"" (1976), and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney's ""Freaky Friday"" (1976) and ""Candleshoe"" (1977),"
"who claims to be fifteen years old and has been a prostitute for six years. Ali is Jason's wife, and they have two young daughters. Marta is Jason's employer, who has become very tough from years of fighting for justice and who is now driven and stressed. The other characters are a pimp, who is unnamed, and his assistant, a cruel brothel keeper called Mama. The script calls for one actor to play both male charactersJason and the pimp. Jason and Number 18 are haunted by four voices. As poetic and prophetic voices, these characters serve much the same purpose"
"to other people by drawing attention through ""sexually provocative"" dressing as a ""prelude to a genuine relationship"". By the mid-1970s, extremely short shorts had become shorthand for prostitution, particularly underage prostitution, as exemplified by the 1976 film ""Taxi Driver"", in which Jodie Foster's child-prostitute character was dressed in a pair of hotpants. Such associations contributed to hotpants becoming unattractive as a part of a woman's everyday wardrobe, although they remained popular wear in entertainment, party-wear and some evening contexts. The controversial associations with hotpants were still an issue in 1999, when Britney Spears posed for a photoshoot in ""Rolling Stone"""
"her breakthrough to adult roles and brought her numerous accolades including the Academy Award for Best Actress. On April 18, 1987 at a local bar called ""The Mill"", 24-years old working-class woman Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster) is brutally gang raped by several drunk bar patrons, while onlookers cheer them on. Assistant district attorney Kathryn Murphy (Kelly McGillis) is assigned to the rape case. Her superior instructs Murphy to offer a plea bargain with the rape defendants that requires some jail time. They make a plea bargain to charges of reckless endangerment, and are sentenced to prison. Sarah is enraged by"
"22-year-old Teresa De Simone had been working as a part-time barmaid in the ""Tom Tackle"" public house (now called ""The Encore"" public house) in Commercial Road, Southampton. By day she was employed as a full-time clerk for the Southern Gas Board. She had been employed at the pub for less than a month, working two evenings each week, partly to widen her social circle and partly to supplement her income to pay for the Ford Escort car that she had bought three months previously. The pub was located centrally in the city, only 50 yards (46 metres) from the police"
"who was prostituted with another girl, Melissa, in the American Midwest when they were teenagers. Angie recounts how they were expected to have sex with truck drivers and steal their money. She describes an incident when, after Melissa found pictures of a man's grandchildren in his wallet, they realized he was old enough to be their own grandfather. ""I wanted to die,"" she says, close to tears. Outside the film, Bilheimer said that Angie's trafficker expected her to engage in forty sex acts a night, and threatened to kill her if she refused. ""It's not just truck drivers,"" FBI agent"
"""dark story of abuse, violence, and Elvis Presley adulation in the rural South."" Fanning's parents have been criticized for allowing her to film a scene in which her character is raped. However, Fanning defended the film by saying to Reuters, ""It's not really happening. It's a movie, and it's called acting."" Although the film was a failure both at the box office and with critics, Fanning's performance was praised by Roger Ebert, who compared her to Jodie Foster in ""Taxi Driver"". In the same year, at the age of twelve, she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture"
"young age. Many child actors also become successful adult actors as well, a prime example of this being Jodie Foster, whose career includes such films like the 1976 film ""Taxi Driver"", the 1991 film ""The Silence of the Lambs"" and the 2007 film ""The Brave One"". In the United States, the activities of child actors are regulated by the governing labor union, if any, and state laws. Some projects film in remote locations specifically to evade regulations intended to protect the child. Longer work hours or risky stunts prohibited in California, for example, might be permitted to a project filming"
"actual women's prison. Many of the extras were actual inmates. 17-year-old, Valerie Smith, newly graduated from high school, heads off on a road trip to San Francisco with her friend Joleen. They have just started out when Joleen’s car breaks down, but one of Joleen’s friends, Buddy (Sam Bottoms) pulls up and offers to take Valerie the rest of the way. He is overly familiar; Valerie does not know him and is reluctant to accept the offer, but is ultimately pressured into accepting the ride. Not far into the trip Buddy decides to rob a liquor store and forces Valerie"
"she is working as a prostitute and has met Trevor Armitage. ""It's fucking cold outside, standing there for a couple of hours. I've had no problem with the cops out there. I get a lot of compliments from everyone 'cause of my legs."" She moves in with Armitage that month, aged 16. Throughout September and October 1984 she describes Armitage hitting her and calling her a liar. She leaves him in November, determined not to go back, but then does go back. The second-last entry is on 19 January 1985. She had been arrested and kept in custody a few"
"heard about these auditions for a movie, and I just went with a friend to see what it was about. They kept calling me back."" In the film, she plays a woman who ages from 13 to 38, who is raped and tortured in Vietnam and who becomes an abused housewife, mother, and businesswoman in the United States. According to Stone, ""Our people saw her, put her on video, thought she was electric, and flew her down to Los Angeles. I thought she was charismatic. We worked with her, put her on video with other actors, introduced her to Tommy"
"with the tour, A Better World raised money to help women and children who had been trafficked in Thailand as part of the country's prostitution industry. The first performances of ""She Has a Name"" in the United States took place in Folsom, California in 2014 under the direction of Emma Eldridge, who was a 23-year-old college student at the time. The script calls for five actors to portray ten characters. The two main characters are Jason, a young Canadian lawyer; and Number 18, a young female prostitute who claims to be fifteen years old and has been a prostitute for"
"who was 12 years old. In 1917, during the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, Hattie is a prostitute working at an elegant brothel run by the elderly, cocaine-sniffing Madame Nell. Hattie has given birth to a baby boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet, who lives in the house. When photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and Violet are the only people awake. He asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay. Bellocq becomes a fixture in"
"years later, and his loved ones: ""whatever bad moments that I had certainly could never compare to that family"". Jodie Foster Alicia Christian Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, director, and producer. She has received two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B DeMille Award. For her work as a director, she has been nominated a Primetime Emmy Award. A child prodigy, Foster began her professional career as a child model when she was three years old, and she made her acting debut in 1968 in the television sitcom"
"as a highlight. In an Anchorage motel room in 1983, 17-year-old Cindy Paulson (Vanessa Hudgens) is handcuffed and screaming for help. She is rescued by an Anchorage Police Department patrol officer. He takes Paulson to the hospital, and her clothes are kept for a rape kit. At an APD station, she explains to detectives that she was abducted and raped. Because she is a prostitute and lying about her age, the detectives do not believe her story, refusing to even look into the man whom she named as her abductor, Robert Hansen (John Cusack). They claim Hansen is an upstanding"
"flight attendant for injuries from that incident. Tory Lane Tory Lane (born Lisa Piasecki September 30, 1982) is an American fetish model, exotic dancer, pornographic actress, and pornographic film director. She was named among the top twenty pornographic actresses at the 2007 Adultcon and won two AVN Awards. She was also inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2017. Lane was born in Schenectady, New York, and is of Polish and Italian descent. She worked as a bartender at a club called The Elbo Room on Ft. Lauderdale Beach. She also worked at a sex shop and as a"
"Escort Girl (film) Escort Girl is a 1941 American film directed by Edward E. Kaye; it is also known as ""Scarlet Virgin"". Ruth Ashley (Betty Compson) is a former escort girl who now owns the Hollywood Escort Bureau in Los Angeles together with Gregory Stone (Wheeler Oakman). Ruth is co-owner of the Café Martinique, where the escorts go with their dates to watch striptease and drink champagne. The escort bureau is managed by Breeze Nolan (Guy Kingsford) who provides customers with both male and female escorts. Ruth has a daughter, June (Margaret Marquis), who is ignorant of her mother's occupation."
"on social networks. Patrícia Kimberly Patrícia Kimberly, born Gisele Barbosa (January 6, 1984) is a Brazilian prostitute, stripper and pornographic actress. Kimberly began her career at as a prostitute in the nightclubs of São Paulo at age 18. In 2005, she began working on adult films. She is frequently invited to talk shows and interviews to speak in favor of prostitution and the adult film industry. In 2018, Kimberly was a winner of the Carnival of São Paulo as a muse of the Acadêmicos do Tatuapé Samba school. ""Marie Claire"" noted her as a ""sex influencer"" due to her large"
"Jodie Foster Alicia Christian Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, director, and producer. She has received two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B DeMille Award. For her work as a director, she has been nominated a Primetime Emmy Award. A child prodigy, Foster began her professional career as a child model when she was three years old, and she made her acting debut in 1968 in the television sitcom ""Mayberry R.F.D."" In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several television series and made her film"
"Felicia Fox Felicia Fox (born May 25, 1974) is an American pornographic actress. Fox grew up in Enon, Ohio and attended Greenon High School, where she was a member of Future Farmers of America. She graduated from Greenon in 1992. She states that she spent much of her childhood as ""a naked jaybird, running around town in my birthday suit as much as possible."" She has worked as a forklift driver and cargo handler at Emery Worldwide at Dayton International Airport, a dock worker, a home health aide, a nail technician at a J.C. Penney's, and as a bartender. After"
"Jodie Fisher Jodie Lin Fisher (born July 17, 1969) is an American actress whose acting credits include ""NCIS: Los Angeles"", ""Star Trek"", and ""Little Big League"" as well as the reality TV series Age of Love. Jodie Fisher was born in Dallas, Texas, and is of Scandinavian and Irish ancestry. She graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Dean's List. Fisher has appeared as a lead actress in television and movie roles, including a 2011 episode of the television series """". After her sexual harassment claim which resulted in the resignation of then Hewlett-Packard"
"dedicated time outside of filming on rehearsing scenes with her. She described ""Taxi Driver"" as a life-changing experience and stated that it was ""the first time anyone asked me to create a character that wasn't myself. It was the first time I realized that acting wasn't this hobby you just sort of did, but that there was actually some craft."" Released in February, it won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May; Foster also impressed journalists when she acted as French interpreter at the film's press conference. ""Taxi Driver"" was a critical and commercial success, and earned"
"irregularities. She is divorced from Francis Coady and has one child. Jodie Fisher Jodie Lin Fisher (born July 17, 1969) is an American actress whose acting credits include ""NCIS: Los Angeles"", ""Star Trek"", and ""Little Big League"" as well as the reality TV series Age of Love. Jodie Fisher was born in Dallas, Texas, and is of Scandinavian and Irish ancestry. She graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Dean's List. Fisher has appeared as a lead actress in television and movie roles, including a 2011 episode of the television series """". After her"
"adult children. Foster's home apartment is boxed in by large seemingly ominous apartment buildings, and surrounded by the hillside favelas. In spite of her ability to afford luxuries that would reflect her standing in the country's social, political, and professional circles, she chooses to travel by taxi, rather than own a car. She is easily recognized and popular with local drivers, who always greet her with a smile, in an effort to get her business. She has been at the center of corruption accusations at Petrobras. Petrobras said in a statement on its website that Foster was out as CEO."
"living with foster parents in Aberdeen. McClusky uses a taxi operated by Billie McPhail (Katy Murphy) and Jolene Jowett (Eddi Reader), who also perform as Country and Western duo ""The McPhail Sisters"", and are looking for additional support musicians for what they see as their big chance as support act for the Wild Bunch. McCluskey pretends to be a musician and persuades Cissie to join him in supporting them in order to infiltrate the Country and Western scene in Glasgow. David Cole (Guy Gregory), the owner and manager of the Bar L, has been engaging in large scale international drug"
"You Think You Are?"", in which she searched for information about her late father and found that he had a brother, Leslie, who became an actor in repertory theatre. On 11 October 2016, Driver said that she had been sexually assaulted at the age of 17 while on holiday in Greece. On 21 December 2017, Driver became an American citizen. Minnie Driver Amelia Fiona ""Minnie"" Driver (born 31 January 1970) is an English American actress and singer-songwriter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gus Van Sant's ""Good Will Hunting"" (1997) for her role as"
"Trafficked Trafficked is a 2017 American thriller drama film directed by Will Wallace and starring Ashley Judd, Sean Patrick Flanery and Anne Archer. It's Sara's (Kelly Washington) birthday and she is offered a job to travel abroad to be a waitress. She accepts, but instead is sold to sex traffickers by Diane. In India, young teen Amba (Alpa Banker) is partying with her friends when a guy she'd rejected tries to hit on her again. He is thrown out. On her way back home, he throws acid on her and her friend. Her friend is facially disfigured and Amba's hand"
"at the same time paying for kinky sex with a young prostitute who is too stupid to realize who he really is. A few years earlier that girl, Bernadette Woolley, left her home town of Bognor Regis after an argument with her mother, went to London, advertised her services in a sleazy shop in Notting Hill, and had her first sexual intercourse, at 17, with her first customer. Now Bernadette has her own flat in Hackney where she can work undisturbed, and a pimp looking after her, Stan Costigano. Without Bernadette knowing let alone caring about it, her apartment has"
"Patrícia Kimberly Patrícia Kimberly, born Gisele Barbosa (January 6, 1984) is a Brazilian prostitute, stripper and pornographic actress. Kimberly began her career at as a prostitute in the nightclubs of São Paulo at age 18. In 2005, she began working on adult films. She is frequently invited to talk shows and interviews to speak in favor of prostitution and the adult film industry. In 2018, Kimberly was a winner of the Carnival of São Paulo as a muse of the Acadêmicos do Tatuapé Samba school. ""Marie Claire"" noted her as a ""sex influencer"" due to her large number of followers"