Speaking of the Devil (1991)
Genre : Comedy
Runtime : 1H 39M
Director : Enzo Barboni
Writer : Marco Barboni
Synopsis
Bull Webster is a taxi driver with some work problems on his hands: the Spider Corporation, a giant financial holding company, has decided to buy out his taxi co-operative in order to make it go bankrupt and purchase its land at a low cost.
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A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
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