Raging Bull

Raging Bull

  • 1980
  • R
  • 129 min
  • USA
  • biography, drama, sport
9/10

Emotionally self-destructive boxer, Jake La Motta's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writers: Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin

Stars: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto

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Arguably Martin Scorsese's and Robert De Niro's finest film, Raging Bull is often painful to watch, but it's a searing, powerful work about an unsympathetic hero.

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Director

  • Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese
    American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese made the short films while he attended New York University's film school; these include "What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" (1963), "It's Not Just You, Murray!" (1964), and his most famous short of the period "The Big Shave" (1967). This...

Main Cast

Reviews

  • Richard Corliss (TIME Magazine)

    De Niro is always absorbing and credible, even when his character isn't.

  • Ron Pennington (Hollywood Reporter)

    Scorsese goes overboard in an attempt at low-keyed naturalism, however, and there is little dramatic structure to the biographical overview... But there's no denying the power and artistry of De Niro's performance.

  • Bruce McCabe (Boston Globe)

    This is a masterpiece. It proves that a film can have violent undertones and overtones, but still illuminate and comment upon violence in a moving, poetic and profound way.

  • Gary Arnold (Washington Post)

    Martin Scorsese's obsession with a dubious mystique of masculinity turns "Raging Bull" into a ponderous work of metaphysical cinematic bull.

  • Keith Uhlich (Time Out)

    When has a performer as fully and uniquely sacrificed himself to the moving-picture cause as De Niro?

Content

Source: based on the book by Jake La Motta

Motion Picture Rating: R

Genres: biography, drama, sport

Categories: boxer, boxing, jealousy, dysfunctional marriage, rise and fall, brother brother relationship, italian american, violent husband, price of fame, fixed fight, domestic violence, machismo, self destructiveness, champion, bad temper, infedility, anger, coach, broken nose, nightclub, neglected wife, bronx new york city, championship belt, gym, steak, overweight, virility, madison square garden manhattan new york city, infatuation

Crew

Producer: Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler

Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker

Casting: Cis Corman

Director of photography: Michael Chapman

Costume design: Richard Bruno, Marilyn Putnam

Associate producer: Hal W. Polaire

Sound: Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les Lazarowitz

Make up / hair: Verne Caruso, Mary Keats, Mona Orr, Jean Burt Reilly

Details and Technical Specs

Runtime: 129 min

Country: USA

Language: English

Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Color: Black and White

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Also Known As

  • Toro scatenato (IT)
  • Wie ein wilder Stier (DE)
  • Toro salvaje (ES)
  • Touro Indomável (BR)