After his ride bails, a college student (Riz Ahmed) borrows his immigrant father’s taxi without consent and drives into the city to attend a weekend blowout but instead winds up with an alluring fare, a system full of booze and pills, and a murder one charge for which he is caught ostensibly red handed. Hurled into the protracted workings of the justice system and the lion’s den at Riker’s Island, he pins his hopes on a neurotic, eczema stricken pettifogger (John Turturro) and a powerful celebrity inmate (Michael Kenneth ...
After his ride bails, a college student (Riz Ahmed) borrows his immigrant father’s taxi without consent and drives into the city to attend a weekend blowout but instead winds up with an alluring fare, a system full of booze and pills, and a murder one charge for which he is caught ostensibly red handed. Hurled into the protracted workings of the justice system and the lion’s den at Riker’s Island, he pins his hopes on a neurotic, eczema stricken pettifogger (John Turturro) and a powerful celebrity inmate (Michael Kenneth ...