In the movie Taxi Driver, who played child prostitute Iris?
Taxi Driver 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
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane her mother, her landlord, and the molester. Writer Anthony Synnott placed "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" in a trend of sexualizing children in film, calling Rynn the "murdering nymphet" and comparing her to Foster's child prostitute character Iris in "Taxi Driver" (1976). Anthony Cortese also referred to Foster as giving an "encore performance" of "Taxi Driver", calling Rynn "a 13-year-old imp of maturing sexuality". Scholar Andrew Scahill described it as fitting a cinematic narrative of children in rebellion, one in which the child appears seemly, as with "The Innocents" (1961), "The Omen" (1976) and others. The genre