Night of the Hats

  Adventures Of A Taxi Driver The film opens with a voiceover of how London black cab drivers are professional and efficient while ironically showing them otherwise. Black cab driver Joe North* addresses the audience about the job and his problems. His problems include that he lives with his mother, as well as his criminal younger brother and even younger annoying brother. His job keeps ending up in strange escapades, often ending up naked or having sex with women. He moves out, to stay in the flat above the garage of his friend where inevitably he’s caught in a compromising position by his fiancé. Some people take him hostage only for that to turn out to be a prank. When inevitably his brother and flatmate get caught up in crime, he doesn’t believe it when they take a hostage and hijack his cab. This is better when it is a sequence of sketches than when a plot emerges, but even then it’s not great. Joe carries boxes from shopping to the door, only to discover his fare has ...