Raging Bull starring Robert De Niro
Director: Martin Scorsese


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Martin Scorsese's 1980 Raging Bull has been identified in recent years as one of America's greatest films, and understandably so. Robert De Niro won a richly deserved Academy Award for portraying fighter Jake La Motta, an extremely difficult New York boxer who has to contend with his own temper and jealousy, as well as the Mob and the boxing establishment. Joe Pesci is very good as La Motta's long-suffering brother, and Cathy Moriarty made a strong screen debut as the brawler's glamorous wife. The highly contrasted black-and- white film has a richness, texture, and even sensuality about it that, together with Scorsese's amazing editing (with his Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker) and De Niro's focused, tragic performance, is unforgettable.

Synopsis
Starring Robert De Niro in an Academy Award-winning performance, "Raging Bull" is one of the most unforgiving and unforgettable character studies ever filmed. The hero, Jake La Motta, is an Italian-American, Bronx-born boxer plagued by the demons of his Catholic upbringing and by his insane machismo. Mentally and emotionally limited to the extreme, La Motta's only mode of expression is violence, both in the ring and out. "Raging Bull" chronicles the downward spiral of La Motta's life, as his inability to control his brutal rage destroys his marriage, his relationship with his brother and, eventually, his career. Widely hailed as the best film of the 1980s, Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" is an expressionistic tour-de-force. --This text refers to the DVD edition of this video

Video Description
Considered by many critics to be the best film of the 1980s, this gritty docudrama about hardheaded prizefighter Jake LaMotta is so astonishingly real it seems like the champ's black-and-white home movie reels have been spliced together. Academy Award Nominations: 8, including Best Picture, Best Director. Academy Awards: 2, including Best Actor--Robert De Niro.

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Robert De Niro gained 50 pounds and spent hours learning how to box in order to play Jake La Motta. It was the beginning of a trend among American actors of excessive preparation for film roles. Additional cast members: Frank Topham (Toppy); Johnny Barnes (Sugar Ray Robinson); Floyd Anderson (Fighter); Kevin Mahon (Fighter); Ed Gregory (Fighter); Louis Raftis (Fighter); Johnny Turner (Fighter). Additional technical credits: Al Silvani, boxing technical advisor; Frank Topham, technical advisor.

 

 

 

 

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