Top ten movie taxi drivers

Long-time lovers of Disney films should recognise Witch Mountain. The fabled peek attracted attention with two sci-fi family classics in the 70s, 1975’s Escape to Witch Mountain and its sequel three years later Return from Witch Mountain and now it’s back in Race to Witch Mountain. A remake of the original, itself an adaptation of the Alexander Key story, there have been a few tweaks made to the tale of orphaned siblings with paranormal powers the most instantly noticeable the presence of ex-WWE wrestler Dwayne Johnson (formerly The Rock).

The 6-foot-5-inches beefcake, himself a muscle mountain, plays ex-convict cab driver Jack Bruno, a new addition to the story who according to the film’s producer Andrew Gunn “has been dealt a bad hand in life,” adding: “He’s on a hamster wheel, driving up and down the Vegas Strip, trying to lay low in life. Johnson elaborates on his character: “The only personal relationships he has are taking fares from point A to point B in Vegas.” But all that inevitably changes when the young twosome jump in the back of his cab.

It’s quite the adventure for a humble cabbie and yet it’s far from the first time that one has been thrust into the Hollywood limelight. And so to celebrate this new addition to the taxi cab ranks, we bring you ten of the best cab drivers to have driven onto the Boxwish radar.