The producing brothers Joe and Harry Gantz spent months prowling Manhattan, capturing the absurdly explicit verbal gymnastics between passengers and their goading driver on lipstick-size hidden cameras and undetected microphones in the rigged cab. The result might be "candid" and "genuine" (as an HBO release trumpets), but it's also cloyingly single-minded in its zeal to depict the city as a boiling vat of prurient dialogue. The nine segments featured here include a skinny white guy and an extremely large black woman sharing the cab on their first date while he addresses his "big black woman" fetish; a guy and his blonde transsexual girlfriend boasting about their steamy sex life; a gentile guy discussing how the Jewish woman whom was once his girlfriend would take phone calls from her mother during sex; a young tattooed rock 'n' roll couple getting physical in the back seat, complete with her performing fellatio; and a couple of party girls and their male companion vividly demonstrating the "If you get naked, you get a free drink" policy of the karaoke bar they just left.

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