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
Screenwriters: Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin
Stars: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty
Robert De Niro won 1981 Academy Awards Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
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.
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)....
as Jake La Motta
as Joey La Motta
as Vickie Thailer
as Salvy Batts
as Tommy Como
as Lenore
as Mario
as Man at Webster Hall Table...
as Guido
as Patsy
as Soda Fountain Clerk
as Jackie Curtie
as Jimmy Reeves
as Sugar Ray Robinson
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
Source: based on the book by Jake La Motta
Genres: biography, drama, sport
Certificate: R
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
Year: 1980
Runtime: 129 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo
De Niro is always absorbing and credible, even when his character isn't.
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.
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.
Martin Scorsese's obsession with a dubious mystique of masculinity turns "Raging Bull" into a ponderous work of metaphysical cinematic bull.
When has a performer as fully and uniquely sacrificed himself to the moving-picture cause as De Niro?