 Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city s ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his date s dead dog Jasper and get back to the babe who s so hot she mutters darkly about being a Pressure Cooker: his conventional efforts are continually thwarted. Quaid is respected by the peculiar groups he interests in the dog s corpse and effects, and our one-gloved heroine is much keener on him than on her rather lackluster date.